Darktable crashes with no certain action mostly by itself, sometimes while changing between modules but mostly by itself
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I checked and did not find my issue in the already reported ones
Describe the bug
Darktable crashes with no certain action mostly by itself, sometimes while changing between modules but mostly by itself.
Crash report:
Translated Report (Full Report Below)
Process: darktable [2127] Path: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable Identifier: org.darktable Version: 5.6.0 (5.6.0.0) Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Foreground Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: org.darktable [1539] User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2026-07-17 11:43:36.4604 +0200 Launch Time: 2026-07-17 09:52:53.9183 +0200 Hardware Model: Mac14,13 OS Version: macOS 26.5.2 (25F84) Release Type: User
Crash Reporter Key: 51B7F7BF-EA9A-D098-0931-E8AA4CB0DD65 Incident Identifier: 100AB1AD-8D10-432F-A8AD-C733986FE75F
Sleep/Wake UUID: 7F762F89-6265-4A00-896A-D19FAB4A4EC7
Time Awake Since Boot: 10000 seconds Time Since Wake: 2 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Triggered by Thread: 0, Dispatch Queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6, Abort trap: 6 Terminating Process: darktable [2127]
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Steps to reproduce
Waiting
Expected behavior
not crash and also not be so slowed down
Logfile | Screenshot | Screencast
No response
Commit
Mostly not doing any action at all
Where did you obtain darktable from?
darktable.org / GitHub release
darktable version
5.6.0.
What OS are you using?
Mac
What is the version of your OS?
25.6.2
Describe your system
Apple M2 Max, 35 GB RAM
Are you using OpenCL GPU in darktable?
None
If yes, what is the GPU card and driver?
No response
Please provide additional context if applicable. You can attach files too, but might need to rename to .txt or .zip
No response
Source: darktable-org/darktable