>At 9:13 PM -0400 on 4/29/02, Robert Covington wrote:
>
>
>>  >I have had a series of crashes ongoing for over a year. I have no idea
>>what
>>>the offender is.
>>>
>>>It always accompanies an image import...however I have seen the same 3
>>>instructions when doing non-image operations also.
>>>
>>>
>>>First I see a
>>>
>>>*NOP
>>>DB.L (probably a sic)
>>>I forget the third
>>>
>>>or similar.
>>
>>
>>The Evil Ones are:
>>
>>*NOP      4E71
>>DBF    D0,*-$0002      51C8 FFFC
>>MOVEM.L  (A7)+,D0/A0    4CDF 0101
>
>Get HexEdit, there are OS 9 and OS X versions available.  It can
>search and browse data and resource forks.  It also comes with full
>source code and projects for Project Builder, CodeWarrior and MPW.
>Oh, and it's free and the source is covered under the Mozilla Public
>license.

I would prefer something more automatic...didn't know if RP or Jay or
others could whip up something interesting.

>BTW, does the filesystem busy keep you from doing anything with
>MacsBug?

I can't create a log, though I can do some basic checks I think.

>Can you do a stack chain (SC7 or SC6 IIRC) or does MacsBug
>show a label where the crash is, like the name of a fragment or
>function?

Just says Illegal instruction at _A008 I think. The app name always varies.

>Also is it the NOP that has the asterisk?

Yep.

That's a strange place to
>crash.  I haven't used MacsBug in awhile so I might be off.

It is a living hell. Just killed me a minute ago, again (about 5 times
tonight). Always, these same 3 items show themselves in Macsbug. Only a
restart will salvage anything.

Goes away for weeks, then comes up again and ruins my life for a while.

rc