Crash immediately after launch about phpmon

[nicoverbruggen]

Great! Let me know if the problem has been resolved after upgrading 🤞

[nicoverbruggen]

Hi @duellsy, thanks for reporting. I will take a look later tonight to further investigate what's going on. I will also likely need more information.

For now, I made a quick build for you, which added some extra logging and disabled the alert that likely leads to the crash: phpmon.zip.

That's all I can do right now. I will be able to properly look at this issue after work.

Can you let me know if this build runs correctly for you and send me the session file after you ran this build?

EDIT: Additionally, if possible, send me the following file (make a zip and attach it here; it's not a text file): ~/Library/Preferences/com.nicoverbruggen.phpmon.plist

[nicoverbruggen]

If that first build works for you, try this one as well: phpmon-tweaked-build.zip

(If this one still crashes then there's something weird going on that I haven't figured out yet. This could be a concurrency-related issue on Monterey as well, but I suspect it's some weirdness related to uninstalling that previous version of PHP.)

Regardless, please give this a go and let me know if this fixes the issue.

[duellsy]

Thanks so much for responding and attempting a fix so quickyl.

But no luck with the initial build I'm afraid. .plist file attached.

phpmonplist.zip

Also tried the second build, but no luck there eithe.

[nicoverbruggen]

Can you send me the session log file again for the second build I posted above? Crash log would also be great.

After that, try replacing the plist file with this one: modified-plist.zip

[duellsy]

Sure, here's the session log:
https://gist.github.com/duellsy/cc4e19618e53f5bf621988478fb482fa

Crash log:
https://gist.github.com/duellsy/c64dfffd9c300aa49051b6f66e72c247

No luck after replacing the plist file.

[nicoverbruggen]

According to your log, it appears as if the automatic background update check causes the crash.

I've disabled the auto-update check here: phpmon.zip... fingers crossed that this build doesn't crash? 🤞

If this build works, there's some strange problem with the updater that needs to be fixed and I need to get to the bottom of that. For context, all the updater runs in the background is this:

curl -s --max-time 5 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicoverbruggen/homebrew-cask/master/Casks/phpmon.rb' | grep version

[duellsy]

No love I'm afraid :(

If it's of any value, running that curl gave a pretty instant response:

curl -s --max-time 5 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicoverbruggen/homebrew-cask/master/Casks/phpmon.rb' | grep version                                 ~
  version '5.7.4_1040'

[nicoverbruggen]

Aha, upon doing some additional research this might be a bug in an older version of macOS Monterey...

I am seeing in the crash log that you are still using macOS 12.1.

I have reason to believe this was fixed in a later point update for Monterey. I'd at least recommend upgrading to 12.6.3, which is the latest update for macOS Monterey (if you do not want to or cannot upgrade to Ventura).

If the issue still occurs there, I'd be happy to look into it further, but I currently believe this may be an Apple issue.

[duellsy]

Sweet, in case that was the issue I've already kicked off the upgrade, 34 minutes remaining 😅

This machine hasn't been used in a while, and I didn't know it was this out of date!

[duellsy]

Winner!

Works perfectly after a MacOS upgrade. I'm so sorry for wasting your time on this, and a huge thanks for the help.

[nicoverbruggen]

Now that I'm aware of this, I can enforce macOS 12.4 or later as a minimum version requirement. Not everyone is likely to report a crash like this, and may simply choose not to use the app, all because they are running an older OS and the app crashes.

I have virtual machines set up that I use to check on older versions of macOS... but are always up-to-date, so I would not have caught this.

After this discovery I can simply enforce the macOS version requirement and folks can avoid having PHP Monitor crash on them. I'd say that's a win! So @duellsy, thanks again for reporting (and your sponsorship) — I wouldn't call this wasting my time 😉

[duellsy]

Love this response, you're a good person Nico.
I've found PHP Monitor tremendously useful for quite some time now, so all thanks go to you 🙌