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I need help with my TestFlight crash report. I have already symbolicated my crash report but I don't see an error.
My application always crashes at the same position when I open it on my iPad Air. It doesn't crash in debug mode which makes it very difficult for me to find the issue. My crash report from TestFlight: Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000016d5f26f0 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000016d5f26f0 VM Region Info: 0x16d5f26f0 is not in any region. Bytes after previous region: 546219761 Bytes before following region: 399632 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL MALLOC_LARGE 14c000000-14cd08000 [ 13.0M] rw-/rwx SM=PRV ---> GAP OF 0x2094c000 BYTES Stack Guard 16d654000-16d658000 [ 16K] ---/rwx SM=NUL Termination Reason: SIGNAL 4 Illegal instruction: 4 Terminating Process: ProjectiOS [745] Triggered by Thread: 0 Thread 0 name: Thread 0 name: Thread 0 Crashed: 0 ProjectiOS 0x0000000107abf3b4 0x1026ac000 + 88159156 1 ProjectiOS 0x000000010e7d3be4 0x1026ac000 + 202537956 2 ProjectiOS 0x000000010e96c45c 0x1026ac000 + 204211292 3 ProjectiOS 0x000000010e96cadc 0x1026ac000 + 204212956 4 ProjectiOS 0x000000010e7d7ba4 0x1026ac000 + 202554276 5 ProjectiOS 0x00000001079cccc0 0x1026ac000 + 87166144 6 ProjectiOS 0x000000010945f33c 0x1026ac000 + 115028796 7 ProjectiOS 0x000000010945b648 0x1026ac000 + 115013192 8 ProjectiOS 0x0000000109458510 0x1026ac000 + 115000592 9 ProjectiOS 0x0000000107530430 0x1026ac000 + 82330672 10 ProjectiOS 0x0000000109459290 0x1026ac000 + 115004048 11 ProjectiOS 0x0000000109457584 0x1026ac000 + 114996612 12 ProjectiOS 0x00000001094b961c 0x1026ac000 + 115398172 13 ProjectiOS 0x00000001094bb8a0 0x1026ac000 + 115407008 14 ProjectiOS 0x00000001094c0340 0x1026ac000 + 115426112 15 ProjectiOS 0x000000010971e698 0x1026ac000 + 117909144 16 ProjectiOS 0x000000011104f7a4 0x1026ac000 + 244987812 17 QuartzCore 0x00000001879f4548 CA::Display::DisplayLinkItem::dispatch_(CA::SignPost::Interval<(CA::SignPost::CAEventCode)835322056>&) + 64 (CADisplay.mm:6671) 18 QuartzCore 0x00000001879d1c64 CA::Display::DisplayLink::dispatch_items(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, unsigned long long) + 880 (CADisplay.mm:5794) 19 QuartzCore 0x00000001879e5394 CA::Display::DisplayLink::dispatch_deferred_display_links(unsigned int) + 360 (CADisplay.mm:4886) 20 UIKitCore 0x000000018c936afc _UIUpdateSequenceRunNext + 128 (_UIUpdateSequence.mm:189) 21 UIKitCore 0x000000018c935f8c schedulerStepScheduledMainSectionContinue + 60 (_UIUpdateScheduler.m:1197) 22 UpdateCycle 0x000000027364b560 UC::DriverCore::continueProcessing() + 84 (UCDriver.cc:288) 23 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186f8c4cc __CFMachPortPerform + 168 (CFMachPort.c:604) 24 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186fbc0b0 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 60 (CFRunLoop.c:2045) 25 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186fbbfd8 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 508 (CFRunLoop.c:2184) 26 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186f93c1c __CFRunLoopRun + 2168 (CFRunLoop.c:3205) 27 CoreFoundation 0x0000000186f92a6c _CFRunLoopRunSpecificWithOptions + 532 (CFRunLoop.c:3462) 28 GraphicsServices 0x000000022790d498 GSEventRunModal + 120 (GSEvent.c:2049) 29 UIKitCore 0x000000018c956ba4 -[UIApplication _run] + 792 (UIApplication.m:3902) 30 UIKitCore 0x000000018c8ffa78 UIApplicationMain + 336 (UIApplication.m:5577) 31 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110d93700 0x1026ac000 + 242120448 32 ProjectiOS 0x00000001109068f0 0x1026ac000 + 237349104 33 ProjectiOS 0x000000010f5885d4 0x1026ac000 + 216909268 34 ProjectiOS 0x000000010f588908 0x1026ac000 + 216910088 35 ProjectiOS 0x0000000107cf95b8 0x1026ac000 + 90494392 36 ProjectiOS 0x000000010e85dce8 0x1026ac000 + 203103464 37 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110fadbd4 0x1026ac000 + 244325332 38 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110f48e64 0x1026ac000 + 243912292 39 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110f50004 0x1026ac000 + 243941380 40 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110fb54f4 0x1026ac000 + 244356340 41 ProjectiOS 0x0000000110de715c 0x1026ac000 + 242463068 42 ProjectiOS 0x000000011102e55c 0x1026ac000 + 244852060 43 dyld 0x0000000183faae28 start + 7116 (dyldMain.cpp:1477) Then I symbolicated all the lines starting with "ProjectiOS" in my crash report but I cannot find the issue. Which lines in my crash report cause the crash? Lines 0-16: alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 202259184 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 203932520 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 203934184 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 202275504 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 86887372 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 114750024 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 114734420 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 114721820 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 82051900 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 114725276 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 114717840 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 115119400 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 115128236 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 115147340 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 117630372 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 2126968 Lines 31-42: alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 237070332 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 216630496 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 216631316 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 90215620 alcCaptureSamples (in ProjectiOS) + 202824692 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 1464488 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 1051448 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 1080536 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 1495496 xamarin_get_original_working_directory_path (in ProjectiOS) + 4032 BrotliEncoderHasMoreOutput (in ProjectiOS) + 1991216
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