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

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

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

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.