mac regular crashing of FMS server

[Aussie John]

Hi I know this is always a tricky one but FMS has been crashing regularly. (multiples time a day). As far as I can tell it started happening recently and had been stable for over 12months before.

 

The crash log in console always points to thread 11

 

Thread 11 Crashed:

0   libobjc.A.dylib               0x00007fff8fe9f250 objc_msgSend + 16

1   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8b9c3f81 __CFPropertyListIsValidAux + 65

2   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8b9f34dd CFPropertyListIsValid + 93

3   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8b9fe0e3 CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy + 83

4   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8b9fe2c4 CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy + 564

5   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8bb0cc20 -[CFPrefsPlistSource setValue:forKey:] + 128

6   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8bb09fb4 +[CFPrefsSource withSourceForIdentifier:user:byHost:container:perform:] + 884

7   com.apple.CoreFoundation       0x00007fff8bb088fe _CFPreferencesSetValueWithContainer + 238

8   com.filemaker.FMS.framework   0x0000000100148fa0 MacPrefs::FinalCloseStorage(Draco::unistring const&, __CFDictionary*&) + 80

9   com.filemaker.FMS.framework   0x000000010014cace PrefsArchiver::PutTree(FMSTypes::PreferenceList const&, FMSTypes::PreferenceList&) + 894

10  com.filemaker.PrefsMgr.framework 0x0000000100350635 PreferencesMgr::SetRequest(FMS::EventHelper&) + 133

11  com.filemaker.PrefsMgr.framework 0x00000001003514b9 PreferencesMgr::ProcessEvent(FMS::EventHelper&) + 137

12  com.filemaker.FMS.framework   0x00000001001b8d18 FMS::ComponentBaseThread::Main() + 232

13  com.filemaker.PrefsMgr.framework 0x000000010034d8ff PreferencesMgr::Main() + 383

14  com.filemaker.support.framework 0x00000001016f94eb Draco::Thread::RunThread() + 43

15  com.filemaker.support.framework 0x00000001016fa7f9 Draco::Thread::ThreadUnixProc(void*) + 57

16  libsystem_c.dylib             0x00007fff879c47a2 _pthread_start + 327

17  libsystem_c.dylib             0x00007fff879b11e1 thread_start + 13

 

 

Systems is 10.8.4 on mac mini with external thunderbolt drive for file storage.

FMS 12 advanced v4.404

[Wim Decorte]

what's on the thunderbolt drive?  The live files, backups?

Does the crash occur around backup time or when a schedule runs?

[Aussie John]

the thunderbolt drive holds the live files and the backups. Now that I think of it the crashing probably started about the time I introduced incremental backups.