Random Cubase 6 crashes

smoothny · February 13, 2012, 5:08pm

Hello,

I constantly keep getting random Cubase 6 crashes on my system. Worst thing is that none of the crashes is reproduceable. Here is a stack trace of my latest crash that occurred when trying to insert the Steinberg
Limiter VST to a channel. (most of the crashes occurr when trying to insert new vst/au). Anyone else with
this problem? My system is:

Core i7 iMac with 8Gb memory
MacOS X 10.7.3 (was the same with 10.7.2 and others)
Cubase 6.0.5 (32bit)

Greetings,
Sascha

Process:         Cubase 6 [394]
Path:            /Applications/Cubase 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Cubase 6
Identifier:      com.steinberg.cubase
Version:         6.0.5.357 (6.0.5.357)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [136]

Date/Time:       2012-02-13 17:25:55.414 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50b)
Report Version:  9

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

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000010

VM Regions Near 0x10:
--> __PAGEZERO             0000000000000000-0000000000001000 [    4K] ---/--- SM=NUL  /Applications/Cubase 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Cubase 6
    __TEXT                 0000000000001000-0000000001f8a000 [ 31.5M] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/Cubase 6.app/Contents/MacOS/Cubase 6

Application Specific Information:
objc[394]: garbage collection is OFF

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f57b82 _class_isInitialized + 6
1   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f5782a _class_initialize + 103
2   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f577bc prepareForMethodLookup + 70
3   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f57600 lookUpMethod + 78
4   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f624bb _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache + 40
5   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x97f56d83 objc_msgSend + 83
6   com.novationmusic.automap.vst3	0x20e0c343 ViewWrapper::Attach(ViewWrapper::eViewType, void*, void (*)(void*, unsigned int, void*), void*) + 71
7   com.novationmusic.automap.vst3	0x20e0792c WrapperPlugView::attached(void*, char const*) + 220
8   com.steinberg.cubase          	0x01361c2d CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 1715085
9   com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d3455 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2180021
10  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126da56 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 715190
11  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d3455 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2180021
12  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d09c4 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2169124
13  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013dffc8 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2232104
14  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126f091 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 720881
15  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00df1286 0x1000 + 14615174
16  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00defc9c 0x1000 + 14609564
17  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00df489a 0x1000 + 14629018
18  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013bde2a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2092426
19  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013ce089 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2158569
20  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00d99f8f 0x1000 + 14258063
21  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013bde2a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2092426
22  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013ce089 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2158569
23  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00b6fb6f 0x1000 + 11987823
24  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
25  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
26  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
27  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126d65a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 714170
28  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
29  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
30  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126d65a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 714170
31  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
32  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x012d1381 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 1123041
33  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
34  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126d65a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 714170
35  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
36  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x012b1096 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 991222
37  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
38  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126d65a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 714170
39  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
40  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
41  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0121f76a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 394954
42  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
43  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0126d65a CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 714170
44  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013d24c1 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2176033
45  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013dda42 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2222498
46  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x013dea35 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 2226581
47  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x014a6ac0 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3045920
48  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x014a64fd CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3044445
49  com.apple.AppKit              	0x90513ca5 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 7533
50  com.apple.AppKit              	0x904ac0e7 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 4788
51  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0114d635 0x1000 + 18138677
52  com.apple.AppKit              	0x9043d6d5 -[NSApplication run] + 1007
53  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x014b346b CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3097547
54  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x014b45c4 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 3101988
55  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x012ab09b CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 966651
56  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x01266520 CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis::~CSOLOISTExtendedAnalysis() + 685184
57  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x00cf4dfb 0x1000 + 13581819
58  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x0114d84c 0x1000 + 18139212
59  com.steinberg.cubase          	0x000e1896 0x1000 + 919702

Bane · February 13, 2012, 5:40pm

The LOG file would probably be good to send to Steinberg support. They can normally then find the root of all of these problems.

Edit: Looks like this is Apple related. Try updating Quicktime or itunes. SB support recently told me the same thing after I was having crashes, but Quicktime was pretty updated. It’s worth a shot, though.

smoothny · February 13, 2012, 6:14pm

my iTunes is up to date but i’m not sure about quicktime. but I guess it should be up to date automatically cause of MacOS update mechanism. let me figure it out

EDIT: yeah, like I thought… quicktime is auto up to date with MacOS

Jarno · February 13, 2012, 6:25pm

From your stack trace:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
…
7 com.novationmusic.automap.vst3 0x20e0792c WrapperPlugView::attached(void*, char const*) + 220

First one tells, it’s a BUS ERROR (trying to access misaligned data). The second shows it was some Novation Automap thing calling the system service which crashed. I could bet this is not a Cubase issue, but Novation issue.

smoothny · February 13, 2012, 6:37pm

I was thinking about that novation thing too, but the VST I wanted to insert is not a automap wrapped one. strange things going on.

EDIT: I wrote a support request to Novation… let’s see what’ll happen

smoothny · February 13, 2012, 7:09pm

oh, there is an automap update which fixes a lot of crash issues. let me go for it!