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OSX Yosemite - crash on startup
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OS X Yosemite, Intel Iris 1536 MB

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I have installed Yosemite and when I open Blender it does nothing for a few seconds and then it closes and says 'Blender quit unexpectedly'. I heard on a forum that Blender doesn't work on Yosemite (the new OS for Mac) because it's looking for something that isn't there or something like that? Please help, I really want to use your amazing software! I'm sure it's something simple that can be fixed!!

  1. Open Blender by clicking on icon
  2. It doesn't open

Thanks, Will

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William Griffin (GriffinAnimations) created this task.Oct 20 2014, 5:46 PM
William Griffin (GriffinAnimations) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) renamed this task from Yosemite to OSX Yosemite.Oct 20 2014, 5:51 PM
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) added a project: Platform: macOS.
William Griffin (GriffinAnimations) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 6:07 PM

Oh yeah thanks Campbell, I'm new to this website :)

Bastien Montagne (mont29) renamed this task from OSX Yosemite to OSX Yosemite - crash on startup.Oct 20 2014, 7:26 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) assigned this task to jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe).
Bastien Montagne (mont29) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to Normal.
Joel Godin (FloridaJo) added a subscriber: Joel Godin (FloridaJo).Oct 20 2014, 7:29 PM

Works on my Yosemite.
Just wondering, did you go to System Preferences(apple)> Security & Privacy > Allow Apps from : and set to 'anywhere'?

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 8:34 PM

No

Never set security to allow installs from "anwhere" !!!!!!
First of all: Blender is codesigned, so it runs as "from trustted developer".

In any case you have an app not signed, open it first time with context menu "open", you will get asked
and if you allow, it will later run always.

Again: Blender is codesigned and also runs on OSX Yosemite.

Jens

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 8:36 PM

EDIT: what i said formerly is true for releases not for foreign builds or buildbot !!!!!

Jens

William Griffin (GriffinAnimations) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 9:43 PM

Ok so it worked before and now I have Yosemite (which may not be the issue) it just closes and says 'quit unexpectedly' when I open it, so I don't know what to do. I even right clicked and click 'open' but it still had the same effect. If you like I can make a video of me trying to open it? Anyway, thanks for trying to help, I might delete and redownload it, and I'll let you guys know :)

William Griffin (GriffinAnimations) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 10:01 PM

RESOLVED

Got the newest Blender, works fine :D

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Oct 20 2014, 10:19 PM

Guess you hade the fs_menu bug i fixed long time ago, forgot if it was included in 2.71,
2.72 for sure.
Good you pinned this down.
In general: don't expect apps with an older release date than OS to run properly.
Apple tends to unexpectedly break things in updates.

Jens

Joel Godin (FloridaJo) added a subscriber: jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe).Oct 20 2014, 10:19 PM
In T42316#264787, @jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) wrote:

In any case you have an app not signed, open it first time with context menu "open", you will get asked
and if you allow, it will later run always.

Not true, it wont' open unless if allowed from 'anywhere' otherwise it won't open.
I had that experience with Jin, an online chess interface. That message can be seen here:
http://www.jinchess.com/osx_download

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 11:18 PM

"damaged" is another message, it means your dl'ed app has
not the same hash as signed anymore.

An nontsigned app won't give this message.

Jens

jens verwiebe (jensverwiebe) added a comment.Oct 20 2014, 11:21 PM

@ Wiiliam
As i said: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14369

Jens