Xcode 4.5 - crash log not symbolicated

Question

A user emailed me a crash log for an app I submitted to the App Store. I have the original app store submission archive in Xcode still, but his crash report will not symbolicate. Clicking "resymbolicate" doesn't do anything. I can't find the symbolicatecrash script using mdfind, is it still a part of Xcode 4.5? Is there any way to symbolicate this crash log?

Answer 1

Place the dsym and the log in one folder, and then try to open the crash log.

Answer 2

If you haven't already tried this, upgrade your mac to OSX 10.8.2 or newer. I was running OSX 10.7.5, and upgrading immediately fixed my sybolication woes.

I had tried pretty much everything to get my crash logs to symbolicate. I never had problems before, but a few months had passed since I'd looked at a crash log; at some point during that period I upgraded to Xcode 4.5.2. It seems to me that something with the Xcode 4.5.2 symbolicatecrash perl script does not work correctly on a mac running OSX 10.7.5. In symbolicatecrash, it calls atos to symbolicate an address; it couldn't find the matching symbols, even though I knew for a fact that I had the correct xcarchive. Anyhow, spring for OSX 10.8.2 or newer and hopefully that'll work for you.

Answer 3

The fix for me was:

To go to the xarchive folder with terminal. Run: mdimport .

And xcode can now re-symbolicate properly. The problem is that spotlight is not indexing the archives folder for some stupid reason (lion 10.7)!