# Error message when starting

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358>\
**Category:** Offtopic\
**Created:** [August 13, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358 "2017-08-13T15:25:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![M\_Lampe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@M\_Lampe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/M_Lampe)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358/1 "2017-08-13T15:25:58Z")

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I have troubles running Julia on my MacOS Siera.

I get the following error message:

~ $ exec ‘/Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia’ fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available. Base.InitError(mod=:LibGit2, error=ErrorException(“could not load library “libgit2” dlopen(libgit2.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: @rpath/libcurl.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib Reason: Incompatible library version: libgit2.dylib requires version 9.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 7.0.0”)) rec\_backtrace at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/stackwalk.c:84 record\_backtrace at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/task.c:245 [inlined] jl\_throw at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/task.c:564 jl\_errorf at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/rtutils.c:77 jl\_dlerror at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/dlload.c:74 jl\_load\_dynamic\_library\_ at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/dlload.c:205 jl\_get\_library at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/runtime\_ccall.cpp:159 jl\_load\_and\_lookup at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/runtime\_ccall.cpp:170 jlplt\_git\_libgit2\_init\_23686 at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib (unknown line) init at ./libgit2/libgit2.jl:919 jlcall\_\_\_init\_\_\_23681 at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib (unknown line) jl\_apply at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/./julia.h:1424 [inlined] jl\_module\_run\_initializer at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/toplevel.c:87 \_julia\_init at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/init.c:733 julia\_init at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package\_osx10\_9-x64/build/src/task.c:297 main at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia (unknown line)

I have posted the issue also here:  
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45647539/julia-troubles-running-macos-siera](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45647539/julia-troubles-running-macos-siera)

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**Author:** ![tkelman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tkelman/32/692_2.png) [@tkelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkelman)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358/2 "2017-08-16T06:51:18Z")

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Can you post the output of `otool -L /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib` ?

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**Author:** ![M\_Lampe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@M\_Lampe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/M_Lampe)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358/3 "2017-08-22T16:44:11Z")

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I get the following Output:  
max ~ $ otool -L /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib ?  
/Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib:  
@rpath/libgit2.dylib (compatibility version 25.0.0, current version 0.25.1)  
@rpath/libcurl.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)  
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55471.14.40)  
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 855.17.0)  
@rpath/libssh2.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.1)  
/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)  
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)  
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/objdump: ‘?’: No such file or directory

thank you for your help

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**Author:** ![M\_Lampe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@M\_Lampe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/M_Lampe)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-message-when-starting/5358/4 "2017-08-22T16:45:04Z")

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I get the following output:  
max ~ $ otool -L /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib ?  
/Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgit2.dylib:  
@rpath/libgit2.dylib (compatibility version 25.0.0, current version 0.25.1)  
@rpath/libcurl.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version 9.0.0)  
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)  
/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 55471.14.40)  
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 855.17.0)  
@rpath/libssh2.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.1)  
/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)  
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)  
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/objdump: ‘?’: No such file or directory

thank you for your help.