Thanks. Backtracking to an earlier saved version was able to at least find the source of the crash. Had to do with the way I am using ofLogToFile in conjunction with ofxWatchdog.
I was running a 2nd ofLogToFile method inside of ofxWatchdog::initialize.
Apparently not a good idea but when I run ofLogToFile to create an external log ONLY in ofApp::setup I am not seeing my ofLog calls from within ofxWatchdog.
Any chance you have experience running ofxWatchdog with external logs?