Tag: crash-report

  • Chasing Glitches: From Crash Report to Root Cause on macOS

    Messages wouldn’t open and Safari kept stalling, two ‘unrelated’ bugs that turned out to share one cause: a deadlocked ctkd with a queue of other processes stuck waiting behind it. The fix was one command and no reboot. Here’s the general method for tracing any hang down to the one process that’s actually stuck.