Strange Crash While Working with Text

[nwhit]

I was working with some text in a small banner ad when Photo 1.9.3 crashed. The odd thing is that with the crash it opened Terminal and created the following:

TRAC-xxxxxxxxxx$ /Applications/Affinity\ Photo.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity\ Photo ; exit;

2021-06-17 13:35:04.816 Affinity Photo[2599:98660] CoreText note: Client requested name ".SFNS-RegularItalic", it will get Times-Roman rather than the intended font. All system UI font access should be through proper APIs such as CTFontCreateUIFontForLanguage() or +[NSFont systemFontOfSize:].

2021-06-17 13:35:04.816 Affinity Photo[2599:98660] CoreText note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSystemFontNameRequest to debug.

logout

Saving session...

...copying shared history...

...saving history...truncating history files...

...completed.

Deleting expired sessions...58 completed.

 

[Process completed]

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Never seen anything like this before! Hopefully that Terminal session hasn't messed with anything. Crash report attached.

Affinity Photo_2021-06-17-133455_TRAC-Main20.crash

[Chris B]

Hey nwhit,

I haven't seen this before. I'm asking around the team to see if they have any ideas as it might be a more common crash in Publisher or Designer where text is probably used more. 

[Chris B]

We haven't seen that terminal thing before and the crash reports suggests an undo operation? Does that ring a bell? 

Do you have any debugging software installed at all?

[nwhit]

6 hours ago, Chris B said:

We haven't seen that terminal thing before and the crash reports suggests an undo operation? Does that ring a bell? 

Do you have any debugging software installed at all?

Yes, in fact it did crash when I did a CMD-Z while editing some text. And, no, not aware of any debugging software installed. I've never seen this type of crash myself on any software in Mac history! I was quite surprised to see Terminal open and that it had run something.

[nwhit]

@Chris B Any progress on this? 

[Chris B]

Is this reproducble? I thought it was a one-off crash. Other than the undo part there's not much else in the crash info that gives us any useful info I'm afraid.  If you can reproduce it, can you send  the file over so we can try?

[nwhit]

Chris, yes, this was a one-off. My concern is what did that Terminal session do? The nature of the commands are beyond my knowledge in Terminal, so was hoping you guys might understand what it was doing and if anything "bad" happened as a result. Just seems strange/suspicious that a crash in Photo would initiate a Terminal session of any kind! Thanks.