Assertion Failure: Test crashed with signal ill.

I get this error from time to time in UI tests when they are run on CI. Any ideas what might be causing this error?

Answered by DTS Engineer in 746243022

signal ill probably means that the program crashed with a SIGILL signal, which is the standard way for Intel code to trap (that is, deliberately crash). See Understanding the exception types in a crash report.

To debug this you need to get a crash report from your CI system. Can you do that?

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signal ill probably means that the program crashed with a SIGILL signal, which is the standard way for Intel code to trap (that is, deliberately crash). See Understanding the exception types in a crash report.

To debug this you need to get a crash report from your CI system. Can you do that?

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hi @maveric94, were you able to resolve this? having the same issue for my iOS UI test

@appledev99928 Well, these crashes do not occur too often, so for now I just added collection of crashlogs from ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/. So when they do happen, I could at least examine crashreport

@DTS Engineer Dear Apple, kindly bump this issue. Xcode Cloud Test action always fail with the same error - " App Name (7274) encountered an error (Early unexpected exit, operation never finished bootstrapping - no restart will be attempted. (Underlying Error: Test crashed with signal ill before starting test execution.)) "

I'm also seeing this consistently within Xcode Cloud, but haven't seen it locally. I've downloaded the crash log bundle, and it contains one for AccessibilityControlsExtension and a bunch for MercuryPosterExtension (examples attached). I don't really know what either of those things are, but can't find any references to my code in either.

I was able to work around this issue by setting the Host Application to "None" for my test scheme. This stops Xcode Cloud from attempting to start up the application binary.

Assertion Failure: Test crashed with signal ill.
 
 
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