Crash upon initial download

[schester44]

Description

Just downloaded and I can't get it to open, it just shows this alert.

no logs are available in the Library/Logs directory.

M1 mac on Sonoma 14.5

The dock icon disappears as if its doing an auto update behind the scenes then this message occurs

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:               Cap [61005]
Path:                  /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/MacOS/Cap
Identifier:            so.cap.desktop
Version:               0.4.3 (0.4.3)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Translated)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2026-01-27 11:33:28.0968 -0500
OS Version:            macOS 14.5 (23F79)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        0FDF2537-E786-E767-6AF0-B2D5447309BF

Sleep/Wake UUID:       F766D72A-25EA-4AE5-BA60-0B852487DBA6

Time Awake Since Boot: 1700000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       9974 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Notes:
PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x11128D229)

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 4 Illegal instruction: 4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [61005]

Error Formulating Crash Report:
PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x11128D229)

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   libavcodec.61.19.100.dylib    	       0x11128d229 0x11026d000 + 16908841
1   libavcodec.61.19.100.dylib    	       0x11128d6f0 0x11026d000 + 16910064
2   dyld                          	       0x2032be39f 0x2032a1000 + 119711
3   dyld                          	       0x2032f84c8 0x2032a1000 + 357576
4   dyld                          	       0x2032ecbcf 0x2032a1000 + 310223
5   dyld                          	       0x2032a307f 0x2032a1000 + 8319
6   dyld                          	       0x2032ebd0c 0x2032a1000 + 306444
7   dyld                          	       0x2032ee1b0 0x2032a1000 + 315824
8   dyld                          	       0x2032f81fe 0x2032a1000 + 356862
9   dyld                          	       0x2032bb0cd 0x2032a1000 + 106701
10  dyld                          	       0x2032c09c9 0x2032a1000 + 129481
11  dyld                          	       0x2032bb2e5 0x2032a1000 + 107237
12  dyld                          	       0x2032bb28f 0x2032a1000 + 107151
13  dyld                          	       0x2032be414 0x2032a1000 + 119828
14  dyld                          	       0x2032bb37e 0x2032a1000 + 107390
15  dyld                          	       0x2032dad9a 0x2032a1000 + 236954
16  dyld                          	       0x2032a8203 0x2032a1000 + 29187
17  dyld                          	       0x2032a72ff 0x2032a1000 + 25343

Thread 1:: com.apple.rosetta.exceptionserver
0   runtime                       	    0x7ff7ffd2d494 0x7ff7ffd29000 + 17556


Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x1daedf1ab2dc0056  rbx: 0x000000011316e2f0  rcx: 0x0000000307bfcba0  rdx: 0x0000000307bfcb28
  rdi: 0x000000011316e2f0  rsi: 0x0000000000000004  rbp: 0x0000000307bf7a10  rsp: 0x0000000307bf79e0
   r8: 0x00007ff849199f40   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000307bf7fd0
  r12: 0x0000000112976248  r13: 0x000000011026d4c0  r14: 0x0000000307bf8288  r15: 0x0000000307bf7d78
  rip: <unavailable>       rfl: 0x0000000000000202
 tmp0: 0x000000011128d229 tmp1: 0x0711f8c5c057f8c5 tmp2: 0x000000001047c748


Binary Images:
       0x2032a1000 -        0x203331fff dyld (*) <baa6f02e-dff3-3562-8c99-ea2820c91ad9> /usr/lib/dyld
       0x11026d000 -        0x112974fff libavcodec.61.19.100.dylib (*) <7a691c92-2dd9-3caa-bff8-bc46c7d565e6> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libavcodec.61.19.100.dylib
       0x10d9b8000 -        0x10d9b9fff libavdevice.61.3.100.dylib (*) <77d0225c-5609-3b7d-8fef-61d3bf7b5d97> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libavdevice.61.3.100.dylib
       0x10de6b000 -        0x10e1ebfff libavfilter.10.4.100.dylib (*) <09fd4d41-2a71-3fcf-a397-8497a264580a> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libavfilter.10.4.100.dylib
       0x10e51c000 -        0x10e69ffff libavformat.61.7.100.dylib (*) <60d73b2a-c680-33f5-aa04-05cda388606c> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libavformat.61.7.100.dylib
       0x10e8db000 -        0x10e976fff libavutil.59.39.100.dylib (*) <102a336e-e66e-393d-bd3b-4f076d337bce> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libavutil.59.39.100.dylib
       0x10da88000 -        0x10dac3fff libswresample.5.3.100.dylib (*) <8c7d74e2-8380-3b43-9bc5-b1dceebbf2c7> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libswresample.5.3.100.dylib
       0x10dbce000 -        0x10dc58fff libswscale.8.3.100.dylib (*) <d3fa4f0a-df5d-3c49-8c6e-7dd75a926ee0> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libswscale.8.3.100.dylib
       0x10da41000 -        0x10da4dfff libpostproc.58.3.100.dylib (*) <052ffdf0-32c4-3440-9327-54589a815d4b> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spacedrive.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libpostproc.58.3.100.dylib
    0x7ff7ffd29000 -     0x7ff7ffd58fff runtime (*) <b091dec9-37ac-322a-bd9d-fc5dc22b0082> /usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime
       0x10d045000 -        0x10d098fff libRosettaRuntime (*) <8a85f070-3849-3b55-adde-143cc5902f92> /Library/Apple/*/libRosettaRuntime
       0x100874000 -        0x10274efff so.cap.desktop (0.4.3) <89fe06d5-b7b5-3566-92cc-d94e75855d24> /Applications/Cap.app/Contents/MacOS/Cap
               0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ???

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=810.6M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=810.6M(100%)
Writable regions: Total=721.0M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=721.0M(100%)

                                VIRTUAL   REGION 
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===========                     =======  ======= 
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Kernel Alloc Once                    8K        1 
MALLOC                           530.1M       13 
MALLOC guard page                   96K        6 
Rosetta Arena                     4096K        2 
Rosetta Generic                   1144K      283 
Rosetta IndirectBranch              96K        2 
Rosetta JIT                      128.0M        1 
Rosetta Return Stack                20K        2 
Rosetta Thread Context              20K        2 
Stack                             8176K        1 
Stack Guard                       56.0M        1 
VM_ALLOCATE                         20K        1 
VM_ALLOCATE (reserved)              80K        8         reserved VM address space (unallocated)
__CTF                               824        1 
__DATA                            53.2M      472 
__DATA_CONST                      30.3M      295 
__DATA_DIRTY                      1136K      151 
__FONT_DATA                        2352        1 
__LINKEDIT                       184.9M       16 
__OBJC_RO                         71.8M        1 
__OBJC_RW                         2197K        2 
__TEXT                           625.8M      486 
dyld private memory               4360K        4 
mapped file                       70.4M       29 
shared memory                       32K        2 
===========                     =======  ======= 
TOTAL                              1.7G     1784 
TOTAL, minus reserved VM space     1.7G     1784 



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Full Report
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  "PC register does not match crashing frame (0x0 vs 0x11128D229)"
]
}

[linear]

CAP-624

[tembo]

The crash report indicates the app is running as X86-64 (Translated) via Rosetta on your M1 Mac. The crash occurs in libavcodec.61.19.100.dylib during dyld library initialization with an EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) - an illegal instruction that Rosetta cannot translate.

This suggests you may have downloaded the Intel (x86_64) version of Cap instead of the Apple Silicon (aarch64) version. Cap publishes separate builds for each architecture:

• macOS (Apple Silicon) - for M1/M2/M3 Macs
• macOS (Intel) - for older Intel-based Macs

The FFmpeg libraries bundled in the Intel build contain instructions that don't translate well under Rosetta 2, causing this immediate crash on startup.

Suggested fix: Download the macOS (Apple Silicon) version from the releases page or from cap.so. The native ARM64 build should work correctly on your M1 MacBook Pro.

---

For maintainers: The setup script at scripts/setup.js:19-21 downloads architecture-specific native dependencies from Spacedrive. If users are consistently getting the wrong architecture, it may be worth investigating the download detection logic on the website or adding a startup check that warns when running under Rosetta translation.

[schester44]

^ great diagnosis, i missed the x86 in the filename. Interesting to see Intel as the default download option for Apple.

The landing page could be improved to not hide the apple silicon download behind a small link: