How to read error codes which appear in the console?
<Warning>: ....... -exited abnormally with signal 9: Killed: 9
<Warning>: ....... -1 err = Bad file descriptor (0x00000009)
Here what does signal 9 mean, are there any more signals apart from it. Any documentation available for it.
I get this kind of error, when a App. launched from Xcode is terminated by "Stop" button in Xcode toolbar.
(Another way to get this error is , to press home button, then double tap home button and close the app.)
Things even get worse when I launch the App. again, by tapping on App. icon on iPad Screen, App crashes and throws "libMobileGestalt copySystemVersionDictionaryValue: Could not lookup ReleaseType from system version dictionary"
From finding on stack overflow , I see that this error is found in iOS 6 devices.
This url states that it's a SIGKILL error and it happens when "application is being terminated immediately, without any chance to clean up or catch and handle the signal"
So, I think releasing objets in -(void) didReceiveMemoryWarning
would not help to solve it, then what could be a definite solution?
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Release objects.
obj1 = nil;
[view1 removeFromSuperView];
view1 = nil;
...
}
It means that the application received a signal. Some signal could be handled by the applications, others, not. Signal 9 means that the application needs to be killed, it is not handled by the process, but by the Linux scheduler. The signal to terminate the process that is handled by the process is SIGTERM(15), but, if the process doesn't handle it property, then the process continues to live.
here are the major signals:
Signal Value Action Comment
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
SIGHUP 1 Term Hangup detected on controlling terminal
or death of controlling process
SIGINT 2 Term Interrupt from keyboard
SIGQUIT 3 Core Quit from keyboard
SIGILL 4 Core Illegal Instruction
SIGABRT 6 Core Abort signal from abort(3)
SIGFPE 8 Core Floating point exception
SIGKILL 9 Term Kill signal
SIGSEGV 11 Core Invalid memory reference
SIGPIPE 13 Term Broken pipe: write to pipe with no
readers
SIGALRM 14 Term Timer signal from alarm(2)
SIGTERM 15 Term Termination signal
SIGUSR1 30,10,16 Term User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2 31,12,17 Term User-defined signal 2
SIGCHLD 20,17,18 Ign Child stopped or terminated
SIGCONT 19,18,25 Cont Continue if stopped
SIGSTOP 17,19,23 Stop Stop process
SIGTSTP 18,20,24 Stop Stop typed at terminal
SIGTTIN 21,21,26 Stop Terminal input for background process
SIGTTOU 22,22,27 Stop Terminal output for background process
On UNIX systems the normal way to force terminate an app process is with
kill -9 PROCESS_ID
This sends the app the signal number nine which means: "you quit, NOW"
Generally unhandled exceptions will also cause the OS to terminate apps with this signal. Also killing an app via the "task switcher" does the same thing.
I know the original question was asking what does signal 9 mean, but I found this while looking for how to prevent it.
For me this was caused by sending a Local Notification and not implementing
application:didReceiveLocalNotification
in my AppDelegate. Once I did this, even with the method empty the crash did not reappear. Chances are there is something being called by the system that is not being handled by your code.
in linux there are around 64 signals (more than 64 in some system) ..if you want to see all signals numbering just type "kill -l" without quote on the terminal you will see all the list of signal these. signals are generated by the kernel or by kill system call by user on the particular application(e.g. kill -n app_name ). signal 9 is SIGKILL this is use to kill the application. though we can also mask some of the signals but not all signals can be masked in an application. for future ref. u can go here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_signal
and also see the man page of signal you will get to know more
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