HOWTO: Turn on the Mac CrashReporter
Added on 23/10/2005 @ 21:16:54
Applies to FM 2005, NHL EHM 2005, FM 2006, NHL EHM 2005 NA,
This article applies to Mac OS X users only.
If the game should crash, Mac OS X has a built in feature that can help us in tracing down any crashes. If the game crahes please look in the following two locations for a "Football Manager 2006.crash.log" file:
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<Your Home Folder>/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/
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or in: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ (if it doesn't exist in the first location, notice this is relative to the root and not your home folder)
If you can't find it in either, you probably need to turn on CrashReporter first:
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Go to your Applications, and then into Utilities
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Run the "Console" application
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Go to Console Preferences
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Turn on "Enable crash reporting" and "Display crash logs"
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Try again and see if it creates a crash report when it crashes.
If Console does not contain that option you may need to turn it on manually. Please note that from Mac Os X 10.4 (Tiger) onwards the CrashReporter should be already turned on by default.
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Open Terminal
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Type: "cd /etc" without the quotes and press return
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Type: "cat hostconfig" without the quotes and press return
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See if there is a line with the text "CRASHREPORTER=" and the value "-YES-".
If there isn't you'll need to turn it on:
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Start Terminal
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Type: "sudo pico /etc/hostconfig" without the quotes and press return
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Type your usual Mac user password and press return
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Go to the line containing the text "CRASHREPORTER=", or if the line does not exist, go to the end of the file and add a new line with this text.
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After "=" set the value to "-YES-" (no quotes).
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Press Ctrl+O and press return to confirm overwriting the file.
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Press Ctrl+X to exit Pico.
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Reboot your system
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Try to run the game and see if it creates a crash report if it crashes.
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