iOS9: duplicated lines in crash reports are causin

This is not a question because I have already found a workaround. I am publishing it so that others can take advantage on the hours I was spending on it, and use my suggested workaround.

I have got some strange crash reports - a single line was duplicated many times:

...
0x190e08000 -        0x190e49fff  Notes arm64  <f45c09ce977b3282ab0e879252dfebee> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Notes.framework/Notes
0x190f9c000 -        0x190fa6fff  NotificationsUI arm64  <73dcb247ed183ce7bb330d7bb55f93bd> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NotificationsUI.framework/NotificationsUI
0x190fa8000 -        0x190faafff  OAuth arm64  <c2658cb3208b342dbe1e91cea30ebdd5> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/OAuth.framework/OAuth
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x191900000 -        0x191903fff  ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport arm64  <c70467637c9332c7b0be897200c9ccb1> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport.framework/ParsecSubscriptionServiceSupport
0x1919c8000 -        0x1919ebfff  Pegasus arm64  <82f60f2d5ad73b5fa89d283a4e992e88> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Pegasus.framework/Pegasus
0x191a30000 -        0x191a57fff  PersistentConnection arm64  <8d0b7602daee3aa588c37704a6e3a206> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PersistentConnection.framework/PersistentConnection
...

it caused the symbolicatecrash (perl) script to get stuck. The reason is that the script was originally intended to chain similar entries, assuming they have a different base address. However that code was never working because it has a bug:

# add ourselves to that chain
$images{$nextIDKey}{nextID} = $image{base};

# and store under the key we just recorded
$bundlename = $bundlename . $image{base};

The bug is that the first line should actually be:

$images{$nextIDKey}{nextID} = $bundlename . $image{base};

However I'm suggesting a workaround that will ignore these duplicated lines by adding a next command a bit above this code, i.e.

# frameworks and apps (and whatever) may share the same name, so disambiguate
if ( defined($images{$bundlename}) ) {
    next;

this is not a clean solution because we are missing some protection here, but a least it will work for most of the cases.

Anyway hoping for Apple to remove these duplications soon.

You can use the following shell script which will patch symbolicatecrash to fix it:

curl -o /tmp/t.patch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zqxiaojin/OptSymbolicatecrash/master/fix_dead_loop.patch && cd `xcode-select -p`/../SharedFrameworks/DTDeviceKitBase.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ && sudo patch symbolicatecrash  /tmp/t.patch && cd -

Or copy the symbolicatecrash from my github https://github.com/zqxiaojin/OptSymbolicatecrash