OSX - Julia 1.0 won't start - segmentation fault

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Trying to start up Julia 1.0 (from the released binaries) on OSX, and it immediately seg faults:


signal (11): Segmentation fault: 11
in expression starting at no file:0
jl_typemap_entry_assoc_exact at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/typemap.c:774
jl_typemap_assoc_exact at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/./julia_internal.h:883 [inlined]
jl_lookup_generic_ at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/gf.c:2133
jl_apply_generic at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/gf.c:2179
#print_to_string#330 at ./strings/io.jl:124
print_to_string at ./strings/io.jl:112 [inlined]
string at ./strings/io.jl:143 [inlined]
__init__ at ./sysinfo.jl:114
jl_apply at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/./julia.h:1536 [inlined]
jl_module_run_initializer at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/toplevel.c:90
_julia_init at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/init.c:811
julia_init__threading at /Users/osx/buildbot/slave/package_osx64/build/src/task.c:302
main at /Applications/Julia-1.0.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia (unknown line)
Allocations: 2519 (Pool: 2511; Big: 8); GC: 0

[Process completed]

Any ideas?

2

That’s scary. Corrupted download maybe?

3

I tried to download again just a few min ago, same problem.

4

Do you have any sort of startup file that would try to load some code or anything else unusual about your environment? We did test the OS X release binaries on a couple of Macs before putting them up on the website, so I don’t think they’re broken for everybody, but would be good to figure out what triggers this.

5

I think I fixed it → in my bash_profile I had this:

export PATH="/Applications/Julia-0.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin:$PATH"
export JULIA_BINDIR="/Applications/Julia-0.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin"

I commented those out, and now 1.0 starts up fine. I’m wondering if it was setting the JULIA_BINDIR env variable.

6

Setting that still shouldn’t cause Julia to segfault. Could you file a GitHub issue with as much info about how to reproduce?

7

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28636

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8

Thanks cormullion!