cdpedia trying to call atos when synching pocketpedia

[spudicus]

When I sync my copy of pocketpedia on my iphone 3GS with 3.1 with cdpedia 4.5.3 on my macbook pro running snow leopard 10.6.1 I get a prompt to enter "developer tools" group credentials to allow atos to make changes. If I cancel this prompt the following shows up in the log files:

9/22/09 8:51:18 PM [0x0-0xa4ea4e].com.bruji.cdpedia[21442] atos: unable to get permission to examine process.

I am running as a standard non-admin account.

Is this a known issue?

Thanks!

[Alex]

well, I've never heard of it before.

Here is the manual page to what atos is:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/ ... tos.1.html

Maybe Conor can shed more light on this, but I figured I'd write and let you know that this is not a known issue and it certainly does not happen for me even though I also have Developer Tools installed.

Cheers

[spudicus]

Thanks for the reply Alex. Here is some more info I probably should have included. I first noticed this happening yesterday so I don't think it is related to Snow Leopard which I upgraded to weeks ago. I recently installed the latest iPhone SDK, Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX) and MonoTouch(http://monotouch.net/). I suspect this may have something to do with it. Yesterday was the first Pocketpedia sync I performed since installing the iPhone deveopment tools.

Oh and Barcelona is AWESOME!

[Alex]

Aha, well that sounds like they could be the culprits. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with them. Let's see if Conor is.

Barcelona is awesome, but housing can be quite expensive

[sjk]

There's a reference to /usr/bin/atos in the Pediabase.framework.

[Conor]

If atos is being called it means that CDpedia encounter an exception in the code. When the program finds an exception it calls atos to try to add debugging information for what function it was running and print it to your console log to make it easier to debug. If you could send us the console log, there should have been more errors in an exception. In fact standard OS X should print the exception before even calling our routine that tries to do atos (give it permission to examine CDpedia and it should print an entire stack trace of memory into the console log). Things could be different in Snow Leopard, so I'll test our debugging routine. Also if you don't mind email us your database file so that we can try out the sync with Pocketpedia. If we can duplicate the bug then we can fix it.

[spudicus]

Cool. Thanks Conor.

I sent the console output and my Database.pediadata file to your support email.

Let me know if you need any more info or if you need me to send it to a different email address.

Thanks again.

[Conor]

Thank you. I'll let you know once I solve it.