In some rare situations DbVisualizer (Java) crash with macOS. The following are the scenarios we've got reported from users and the workaround last.
Scenario 1. Clicking a scrollbar
Clicking a scrollbar in DbVisualizer with Java 8 on macOS El Capitan causes the application (Java) to crash miserably.
Scenario 2. Starting DbVisualizer
Installing works fine but when starting DbVisualizer it crash immediately with a log as follows:
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Process: JavaApplicationStub [742]
Path: /Applications/DbVisualizer.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub
Identifier: com.dbvis.DbVisualizer
Version: 9.5 (9.5)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: JavaApplicationStub [742]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2016-06-16 21:49:29.227 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.5 (14F1713)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 6B46B496-40A7-A019-461C-ED048E43461F
Time Awake Since Boot: 410 seconds
Crashed Thread: 0 AppKit Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000303030353150
VM Regions Near 0x303030353150:
__LINKEDIT 000012344122b000-0000123441296000 [ 428K] r--/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceGLDriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/GeForceGLDriver
-->
MALLOC_NANO 0000600000000000-0000600000200000 [ 2048K] rw-/rwx SM=COW
Application Specific Information:
abort() called
Thread 0 Crashed:: AppKit Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8e30f286 __pthread_kill + 10
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff857579ab abort + 129
2 libjvm.dylib 0x00000001043d436f os::abort(bool) + 25
3 libjvm.dylib 0x00000001044f9472 VMError::report_and_die() + 2304
...Other Java applications are also affected by this problem.
Workaround
The solution is to install Java 6 which is not directly used by DbVisualizer itself but seems to fix the macOS environment for Java in general.
- Download Java 6 here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
- Open the javaforosx.dmg file and install it
- Restart DbVisualizer