While trying to help me debug a glitch on my particular DragThing installation, James Thompson pointed out a nifty little tool built into OS X but not enabled by default. The tool is called "Crash Reporter," and it's quite easy to enable.
Open a terminal session, navigate to /etc, and edit (in vi, emacs, or pico) hostconfig. Add a new line (at the end, if you wish) that reads
Once activated, when an application crashes, you'll get a dialog box with the option to write details to a log file. If you say yes, details are written to a log file kept in /var/log/crash.log. Some of the info there can be useful, if not to you, then to the author of the program in helping them debug the problem.
Open a terminal session, navigate to /etc, and edit (in vi, emacs, or pico) hostconfig. Add a new line (at the end, if you wish) that reads
CRASHREPORTER=-YES-Save the changes and exit the editor. On your next reboot, the Crash Reporter will be active. To make it work immediately, type
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/CrashReporter/CrashReporterin the terminal window [Note: I haven't tried this myself, and a posted comment seems to indicate that it doesn't work; a reboot may well be required.]
Once activated, when an application crashes, you'll get a dialog box with the option to write details to a log file. If you say yes, details are written to a log file kept in /var/log/crash.log. Some of the info there can be useful, if not to you, then to the author of the program in helping them debug the problem.
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