[Solved] crash on macOS Sierra 10.12.6

[neodymium]

Anyone know what might cause this crash?

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Process:               VirtualBox [10738]
Path:                  /Volumes/VOLUME/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox
Identifier:            org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBox
Version:               5.1.30 (5.1.30)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           VirtualBox [10738]
User ID:               505

Date/Time:             2017-12-23 05:30:57.166 -0500
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G1036)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        5C42B086-2AC5-5166-DC6F-D17273558F51


Time Awake Since Boot: 180000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]

Application Specific Information:
BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF called from the wrong thread
crashed on child side of fork pre-exec

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libdispatch.dylib             	0x00007fffaae45c1a _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 1291
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff95727bc9 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 9
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff956e8c0d __CFRunLoopRun + 2205
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff956e8114 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 420

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Thanks.

[socratis]

Not even Apple could help you with that. Partial logs are not that helpful I'm afraid. Please ZIP and attach the full log. See the "Upload attachment" tab below the reply form. And please post the output of:

• kextstat | grep -v com.apple

P.S. It's considered a good etiquette to respond to previous problems before you start resolving a new one. An answer like "it works" or "resolved" would help other users as well...

[neodymium]

I think the crash might happen when you try launching it from the Spotlight on Macintosh as opposed to from the Finder.


If you could try launching it from the Spotlight and see if it crashes, then I think you might easily be able to reproduce this issue.



Thank you and have a wonderful day.

[socratis]

No, it doesn't crash if I launch it from Spotlight. I'm on 10.11.6 myself. Bu, I just noticed the following, which I didn't the 1st time:

Path: /Volumes/VOLUME/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox

What is VirtualBox doing in that folder? Are you maybe launching the wrong instance of VirtualBox? If I remember correctly, that's what happens if VirtualBox is not installed in "/Applications". Or even if it's named something else other than "VirtualBox".

[neodymium]

Okay, I think you may have spotted the problem. I have an SD card (inserted) with a partial backup of my system on it.

I think Spotlight must have been choosing the VirtualBox version from the SD card, and it doesn't work when I try to launch that version.

Thank you and have a great day.

[socratis]

Great, thanks for the feedback. Marking as [Solved].