On my mac, I was using ISabelle and it just shut down with no warning -- perhaps because there were network glitches happening or something. I needed to restart the laptop anyhow and went from 2025 RC2 to the 2025 release -- I installed, opened it according to the instructions to deal with security stuff...and it shut down instantly. So I tried Isabelle 2024, which I still had installed...and it did the same thing.
I suspect something like the list of recently opened items, or the most recent item, is somehow screwed up. Does anyone know where this is stored on a Mac, so thatI can reset it perhaps?
Normally I'd look for something like ~/.isabellerc, but I didn't see anything obvious.
Can you start it in the terminal and see if there is any error message?
And it is called ~/.isabelle
…
Thanks. I'll give both of these a try. I'm not sure how I missed ~/.isabelle
... needed more coffee, I guess.
I removed the whole ~/.isabelle
directory, and then moved all three versions of Isabelle from the Applications folder to the trash, and re-downloaded Isabelle2025. I restarted the computer as well. Then I installed Isabelle2025, tried to run it, dealt with the security/privacy settings issue, and tried again...after which it shut down instantly, same as before. I did try running it from the command line, but couldn't figure out the correct invocation, alas. (I also used the Mac's task-manager-equivalent to look for any processes that might be left over from a previous invocation of Isabelle, but didn't see any.)
The invocation you are looking for would simply be .../isabelle jedit
Running isabelle jedit
seems to work fine. But doube-clicking on the Isabelle-2025 icon in the Applications folder still quits more or less immediately.
I append here the report that Apple generates for this failed attempt:
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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Incident Identifier: F4C46DCC-C209-4361-BC44-C06246DC1538
CrashReporter Key: 74089454-1E22-2678-A9E7-40DFDB1F05CF
Hardware Model: MacBookPro18,3
Process: Isabelle2025 [29359]
Path: /Applications/Isabelle2025.app/Isabelle2025
Identifier: de.tum.in.isabelle
Version: Isabelle2025 (4b875a4c83b0)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Role: Default
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Coalition: de.tum.in.isabelle [1107]
Date/Time: 2025-05-20 14:43:41.3412 -0400
Launch Time: 2025-05-20 14:43:41.2989 -0400
OS Version: macOS 15.1.1 (24B91)
Release Type: User
Report Version: 104
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Termination Reason: ROSETTA 0
Triggered by Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 runtime 0x7ff7ffd4bdb0 0x7ff7ffd48000 + 15792
Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit):
x0: 0x0000000000000022 x1: 0x0000000000000000 x2: 0x00007ff7ffd79331 x3: 0x0000000000000800
x4: 0x00007ff7ffd744ad x5: 0x0000000000000000 x6: 0x000000000000002c x7: 0x0000000000000000
x8: 0x00007ff7ffd83000 x9: 0x0000000000000000 x10: 0x00000000fffffed4 x11: 0x0000000000000900
x12: 0x0000000000000076 x13: 0x0000000000000013 x14: 0x0000000000000021 x15: 0x00007ff7ffd83914
x16: 0x0000000000000209 x17: 0x00007ff7ffd6baec x18: 0x000000030c46ccf3 x19: 0x00007ff7ffd79331
x20: 0x00007ff7ffd79331 x21: 0x00000000000000bf x22: 0x00007ff7ffd6fda1 x23: 0x000000030c46c7c0
x24: 0x000000010c158000 x25: 0x0000000000000009 x26: 0x000000010c158000 x27: 0x0000000000000010
x28: 0x0000000000000009 fp: 0x000000030c46c750 lr: 0x00007ff7ffd65c94
sp: 0x000000030c46c730 pc: 0x00007ff7ffd4bdb0 cpsr: 0x44001000
far: 0x0000000000000000 esr: 0x56000080 Address size fault
Binary Images:
0x204202000 - 0x20428efff dyld (*) <4d52bd1e-6a0e-31db-b564-9e2029fdcd6f> /usr/lib/dyld
0x7ff7ffd48000 - 0x7ff7ffd77fff runtime (*) <2315e5a0-93f9-38af-a9d5-102bbd4c4c00> /usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime
0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???
Error Formulating Crash Report:
dyld_process_snapshot_get_shared_cache failed
EOF
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Full Report
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Model: MacBookPro18,3, BootROM 11881.101.1, proc 8:6:2 processors, 16 GB, SMC
Graphics: Apple M1 Pro, Apple M1 Pro, Built-In
Display: LG HDR 4K, 3840 x 2160 (2160p/4K UHD 1 - Ultra High Definition), Main, MirrorOff, Online
Display: PZN3210U, 3840 x 2160 (2160p/4K UHD 1 - Ultra High Definition), MirrorOff, Online
Memory Module: LPDDR5, Samsung
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_wifi (0x14E4, 0x4387), wl0: Jul 26 2024 20:03:40 version 20.10.1123.2.8.7.186 FWID 01-94146b8e
IO80211_driverkit-1315.7 "IO80211_driverkit-1315.7" Sep 28 2024 16:04:40
AirPort:
Bluetooth: Version (null), 0 services, 0 devices, 0 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
USB Device: USB31Bus
USB Device: USB3.0 Hub
USB Device: USB3.0 Card Reader
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub
USB Device: Anker USB-C Hub Device
USB Device: USB31Bus
USB Device: USB31Bus
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc.
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc.
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc.
Problem solved -- an update to MacOS seems to have resolved the problem.
Last updated: May 31 2025 at 04:25 UTC