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Riot Nrrrd

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Feb 23, 2011
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Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but here goes.

I'm running into a strange problem with a Late 2012 Mac mini running macOS Sonoma 14.7 via OCLP 2.0.2.

If I open Microsoft Teams from Finder or the Dock or do an open /Applications/Microsoft\ Teams.app from the command line, it crashes WindowServer every time. Strangely, I have a workaround: in Terminal.app, I cd down into the Teams app folder and go to the binary directory (cd /Applications/Microsoft\ Teams.app/Contents/MacOS) and run it manually (./MSTeams), it runs (with lots of debug-looking output) just fine. So I've been limping along doing that in the absence of a fix.

But a couple of days ago, I did a Zoom session with a Dell support guy and when I went to do a Share on one of my Terminal.app windows, it crashed WindowServer in exactly the same way! I tried the Teams workaround - i.e. ran the Zoom binary from the command line as above - but in this case, trying a Share still caused it to crash WindowServer. :(

It seems like something with this hardware/OS/OCLP combination doesn't like videoconferencing apps. Has anyone else seen similar behavior?

I'm not opposed to updating the OS or OCLP (but I think OCLP 2.2.0 doesn't understand Sonoma 14.7.2 as it came out before 14.7.2), but I'm nervous about doing so because the system is pretty stable otherwise.
 
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