Method causing a weird crash

I am building this app and I am encountering some issues I haven't seen before.

1. the app crashes when I run the method below which is connected to a UIButton for a trigger. so when I hit the button it does the print and then the simulator crashes to the springboard. if I launch the app again from the springboard it doesn't get to the print method, if I rebuild from Xcode it does, and then promptly crashes as before.

2. Usually there is some info in the debug console where I can at least get a clue as to what is going on but there doesn't seem to be much there. One thing I noticed is that there is something about accessibility being turned on or something when the app initially launches in the simulator, I can't remember if that is always there or not:

2010-02-18 10:35:19.024 Cash[497:207] ******* Accessibility Status Changed: On 2010-02-18 10:35:19.134 Cash[497:207] ********** Loading AX for: com.yourcompany.Cash ************

copyright 2010 Nicholas Iannone:

-(IBAction) logTransaction {

NSIndexPath *indexPath = [[NSIndexPath alloc] init];
indexPath = [self.categoryTableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

NSInteger selectedCategory = indexPath.row;
[indexPath release];
NSString *categoryString = [[NSString alloc] init];
categoryString = [self.categoryArray objectAtIndex:selectedCategory];
CLLocationManager *locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
locationManager.delegate = self;
locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
locationManager.distanceFilter = 1000.0f;
[locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
double x = 10.0;
double y = 10.0;
NSString *descriptionString = [[NSString alloc] init];

descriptionString = descriptionField.text;
//[locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];

Transaction *newTransaction = [[Transaction alloc] initWithAmount:    [self.amountField.text integerValue] 
                                                      description: descriptionString 
                                                         category: categoryString   
                                                        locationX: x 
                                                        locationY: y];

                                      [categoryString release];
[newTransaction print];

 //log transaction here...

[newTransaction release];

here's the console output:

2/18/10 10:35:19 AM Cash[497] ********** Loading AX for: com.yourcompany.Cash ************ 2/18/10 10:35:28 AM Cash[497] 0.000000,sddssd,Snacks,2010-02-18 10:35:28 -0800,10.000000,10.000000 2/18/10 10:35:28 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[91] (UIKitApplication:com.yourcompany.Cash[0x9148][497]) Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault 2/18/10 10:35:28 AM SpringBoard[482] Application 'Cash' exited abnormally with signal 11: Segmentation fault 2/18/10 10:35:28 AM ReportCrash[491] Saved crash report for Cash[497] version ??? (???) to /Users/knyck2/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Cash_2010-02-18-103528_Nicholas-Iannones-MacBook-Pro.crash

here's the crash log:

Process: Cash [497] Path:
/Users/knyck2/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/3.2/Applications/F54FA00C-9E77-4B9A-8774-2D5B5488A1BA/Cash.app/Cash Identifier: Cash Version:
??? (???) Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [91]

Date/Time: 2010-02-18 10:35:28.631 -0800 OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540) Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000014600478 Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information: objc_msgSend() selector name: release iPhone Simulator 3.2 (193), iPhone OS 3.2 (7B298g)

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0
libobjc.A.dylib
0x9805aedb objc_msgSend + 27 1
UIKit
0x002b4a19 _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 8468 2 GraphicsServices 0x02f1f2a8 PurpleEventCallback + 1576 3 CoreFoundation
0x026bb87e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 4094 4 CoreFoundation
0x026ba878 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88 5 GraphicsServices
0x02f1da4d GSEventRunModal + 217 6
GraphicsServices
0x02f1db12 GSEventRun + 115 7 UIKit 0x002b265d UIApplicationMain + 1134 8 Cash
0x00002648 main + 102 (main.m:13) 9
Cash
0x000025b6 start + 54

Thread 1: 0 libSystem.B.dylib
0x937b88da mach_msg_trap + 10 1
libSystem.B.dylib
0x937b9047 mach_msg + 68 2
CoreFoundation
0x026bb022 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1954 3 CoreFoundation
0x026ba878 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88 4 WebCore
0x03151933 RunWebThread(void*) + 467 5 libSystem.B.dylib
0x937e5fbd _pthread_start + 345 6
libSystem.B.dylib
0x937e5e42 thread_start + 34

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit): eax: 0x07802a50 ebx: 0x00017711 ecx: 0x9655d0c4 edx: 0x07833ba2 edi: 0x14600478 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xbfffe158 esp: 0xbfffdfd4 ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010206 eip: 0x9805aedb cs: 0x00000017 ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037 cr2: 0x14600478

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This is wrong:

NSIndexPath *indexPath = [[NSIndexPath alloc] init];
indexPath = [self.categoryTableView indexPathForSelectedRow];

NSInteger selectedCategory = indexPath.row;
[indexPath release];

You're instantiating an empty NSIndexPath and then overwriting the reference to it. The release on the last line is sent to an entirely different object returned by the table view. The object you create is never used and never released.

This will work:

NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.categoryTableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
NSInteger selectedCategory = indexPath.row;

You're not creating an NSIndexPath object, so you have no responsibility to release it.

(your unnecessary release is causing the index path instance to be prematurely deallocated. When Apple's code tries to release the object, it no longer exists, and the app crashes)