BTT in crash loop

Bug Reports
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Describe the bug
BTT is in a crash loop. It is crashing and relaunching itself repeatedly. I'm not sure how to stop it or determine what is causing this.

It started happening after I spent some time the past few day working on some Touch Bar enhancements. I worked on both widget and button style. Both shell and Applescipt. I'm guessing it is one of the widgets that is running a script ever 5 seconds to update Touch Bar values.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):BetterTouchTool_2018-09-04-094949_kashyyyk.crash (93.9 KB)

Touch Bar (I think)

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Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro
  • macOS version: 10.13.6 (17G65)
  • BetterTouchTool version: 2.609 (however, I was on beta track and it was doing it there too. I downloaded the stable yesterday trying to break out of this crash loop)

Additional information (e.g. StackTraces, related issues, screenshots, workarounds, etc.):

After fiddling with things yesterday, including restarting, a round of "killall -9" commands, and replacing the beta app with the latest stable, things went back to normal. Today I did some more work on an unrelated Touch Bar AppleScript button and it worked fine for a while. Then it started crashing again. I'm unsure what triggered the crashing.

Note: Before bug reporting, please make sure you have the latest version of BetterTouchTool and that you have already tried to restart your system :-). If you encounter a crash, please attach a crash log from the macOS Console.app from the "User Diagnostic Reports" section.

2

I saw during a time BTT launched before crashing it tried to get an update, so I went to get it myself. Now I'm running BTT 2.627 and it is currently not crashing.

I think I had this version yesterday when this started (might have been the latest beta though) and am remembering now I went to get a previous stable release thinking it was the latest release causing the problem.

So, I'm not confident this will resolve the issue. Will report back if it begins again.

3

The crashlog is due to an issue in an older alpha of BTT.
You should download the current version here: https://bettertouchtool.net/releases/btt2.627b.zip

To get out of the crash loop you can use these terminal commands:

killall BetterTouchTool && killall BTTRelaunch

4

Awesome. Thanks for your help!