Capture Go panics in the main app and report them to Crashlytics - #215
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A Go panic aborts the process with SIGABRT, and both the Apple crash report and Crashlytics stop at runtime.asmcgocall: the Go stack switch breaks the unwinder, so the panicking Go frames are never shown. The panic message and goroutine dump only go to stderr. The network extension already redirected stderr into netbird.err in the app group container, but the main app did not, so a panic in the Go code the app itself calls (login, preferences, profile management) left no trace anywhere. Move the redirect into a shared GoCrashCapture in NetbirdKit and call it from both processes before any Go SDK call. On launch, after Firebase is configured, the app forwards whatever netbird.err gained since the last report to Crashlytics: the full dump via log() and a non-fatal whose headline is the panic line. The file itself is never truncated, so the debug bundle keeps picking it up unchanged.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds shared Go stderr capture, persists unreported panic output, and reports it through Firebase Crashlytics. iOS, tvOS, and network extension targets use the shared capture implementation. ChangesGo crash reporting
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participant NetBirdApp
participant GoCrashCapture
participant FirebaseCrashlytics
NetBirdApp->>GoCrashCapture: Read unreported Go crash output
GoCrashCapture-->>NetBirdApp: Return panic or fatal-error output
NetBirdApp->>FirebaseCrashlytics: Log output and record non-fatal error
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In `@NetbirdKit/GoCrashCapture.swift`:
- Line 51: Update the cleanup logic in GoCrashCapture so it does not remove the
shared stderr file while the network extension may still be writing to it.
Truncate the file in place with appropriate interprocess coordination, or retain
it until all unreported output has been consumed, preserving the main app’s
ability to read later Go crash output.
- Line 95: Update the offset persistence in the crash-report processing flow
around reportedOffsetKey so it advances only by the number of bytes actually
inspected and processed, not the full fileSize. Preserve unread trailing data
for subsequent runs when the read is capped by maxReportSize, while retaining
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Do not mark unread bytes as reported.
Line 95 saves fileSize, but line 99 reads at most maxReportSize. When new output exceeds 48 KB, all remaining bytes are skipped permanently. A crash marker after a large preamble is never reported, and a larger crash dump is incomplete. Advance the offset only through bytes that were successfully inspected and processed.
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In `@NetbirdKit/GoCrashCapture.swift` at line 95, Update the offset persistence in
the crash-report processing flow around reportedOffsetKey so it advances only by
the number of bytes actually inspected and processed, not the full fileSize.
Preserve unread trailing data for subsequent runs when the read is capped by
maxReportSize, while retaining the existing behavior for fully processed files.
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… at a time Truncate the file in place when it passes the size cap instead of unlinking it: the other process may hold fd 2 on the same inode, and an unlink would send its later panic output into an orphan nobody reads. Advance the reported offset only past the chunk actually returned. The read is capped at 48 KB, so jumping to the end of the file skipped any second dump that landed behind the first one between two app launches.
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A Go panic aborts the process with SIGABRT, and both the Apple crash report and Crashlytics stop at runtime.asmcgocall: the Go stack switch breaks the unwinder, so the panicking Go frames are never shown. The panic message and goroutine dump only go to stderr.
The network extension already redirected stderr into netbird.err in the app group container, but the main app did not, so a panic in the Go code the app itself calls (login, preferences, profile management) left no trace anywhere.
Move the redirect into a shared GoCrashCapture in NetbirdKit and call it from both processes before any Go SDK call. On launch, after Firebase is configured, the app forwards whatever netbird.err gained since the last report to Crashlytics: the full dump via log() and a non-fatal whose headline is the panic line. The file itself is never truncated, so the debug bundle keeps picking it up unchanged.
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