Your code snippet got mangled making it very hard for me to read. Please can we 
have a full backtrace for the crash. Is there anything interesting in the 
console? Have you tried running with zombies enabled?

On 14 Jan 2012, at 07:30, G S wrote:

> Hi all.  Working on an iPhone app and encountered a stumper.
> 
> I have various kinds of operations (derived from NSOperation) to do async
> queries over the Internet. As is the norm, I determine when they're
> finished by observing their isFinished property, and getting the results in
> observeValueForKeyPath (which as you may know is called in a secondary
> thread).  This works great all over my app.  Except...
> 
> When one particular type of operation finishes, I want to create a
> follow-up type of operation using info from the first. But when I do so,
> calling addObserver on the operation crashes my app with a bad access.
> Since observeValueForKeyPath is called in a secondary thread, I tried
> creating the follow-up operation and setting the observer on the main
> thread. Didn't help. This is being done in observeValueForKeyPath:
> 
> *GetMessagesOperation* msgOp = [[GetMessagesOperation alloc]
>> initWithUserID:_user.getID() sinceLast:true              includeSystem:true
>> includeUser:false skipRows:0 maxCount:50 DBManager:_pDatabaseMgr];
>> *
> 
> 
> 
>> *[msgOp addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"isFinished" options:0
>> context:getMessageContext];
>> *
> 
> 
> 
>> *[_operationQueue addOperation:msgOp];
>> *
> 
> 
> 
>> *[msgOp release];*
> 
> 
> The context is a void* to a string; I use the same syntax for many other
> operations that work fine. Here's how the contexts are defined:
> 
> *static void* systemInfoContext = (void*)@"sys";
> static void* validateUserContext = (void*)@"user";
> static void* getMessageContext = (void*)@"msg";*
> 
> It crashes instantly on that addObserver call.  Anybody have a guess here?
> Thanks!
> 
> Gavin
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