[MC-170545] macOS: Crash upon entering fullscreen

Workaround

Use the macOS fullscreen button instead of the in-game fullscreen button.

If your game is already crashing, you'll have to delete your options.txt by opening Finder and using Go > Go to Folder > ~/Application Support/minecraft and deleting options.txt.

Minecraft immediately crashes after the game enters fullscreen, irrespectively of whether the game directly is launched into fullscreen mode or the mode is changed under settings. Previously I have experienced that the game would crash upon enabling the mode but be able to run normally when launched into fullscreen.

I have attached the log file.

[^hs_err_pid42881.log]

# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.74-b02 mixed mode bsd-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libglfw.dylib+0x9137]
[error occurred during error reporting (printing problematic frame), id 0xe0000000]

Linked issues

is duplicated by 1

MC-201179 Bugged Locked Full screen on MC Java Macbook Pro Resolved

Attachments

hs_err_pid11779.log

Comments 23

Mike24 2020-02-16T09:33:02Z

Please also attach the minecraft log file and the minecraft crash report to the files too.

Nergalic 2020-02-16T12:55:36Z

Hi Hadys3

It is the crash report that I have attached.
The minecraft log file itself only contains three lines, being rather unhelpful:

[^latest.log]

[13:52:00] [Render thread/INFO]: Setting user: Nergalic
[13:52:03] [Render thread/INFO]: Backend library: LWJGL version 3.2.1 build 12
[13:52:05] [Render thread/INFO]: Reloading ResourceManager: Default

Mike24 2020-02-16T17:56:56Z

Please also attach the crash file from %Appdata%\Roaming\.minecraft\crash-reports\

Nergalic 2020-02-17T08:01:47Z

There is no "crash-reports" directory in my "minecraft" directory.
The crash report I attached is the one the launcher directed me to with its "view crash report" button.

On macOS minecraft files are located here, by the way:
/Users/Nergalic/Library/Application Support/minecraft

Mike24 2020-02-17T18:04:39Z

Could you also add your Java version, CPU Model and Architecture, Display, Graphics card, OpenGL Version And OpenGL Vendor in the enviroment part of your bug Report. These cab all be seen in the F3 menu. Your Graphics Card will be below the "Display: " part of the F3 menu and the OpenGL version is below that.

13 more comments

Ethan Cha 2020-03-04T05:46:31Z

I also have this same issue, it doesn't happen all the time but when it does, it gets very annoying. My computer is a MacBook Pro 16 inch, macOS 10.15.3, 2.6GHz 6 core Intel Core i7, and AMD Radeon Pro 5300M. I have attached a full log:

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Robert Paulson 2020-04-04T04:32:24Z

Same issue here, it happens 90% of the time when I launch. I just keep trying until it decides to work.
Macbook Pro 15-inch, 2018
2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9
32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

tkasriel 2020-09-28T04:14:03Z

Hi!
I've been trying to reproduce the issue, but can't, although I am occasionally getting screen tearing.
MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2020

1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645 1536 MB
Could this be a device / driver issue?

Finley Costello 2020-09-28T17:56:00Z

I also have the same problem. I believe its a mac glitch. My game for whatever reason has locked into fullscreen mode and only launches correctly around 25% of the time. I also cannot access my top bar without exiting the game, and cant access any other programs (such as chrome) without the game forcefully minimising itself.

Matthew Julian jusup 2020-09-30T00:47:43Z

This is not only in mac it's also in java. This has happened to me way too many times

Matisse Flora 2020-10-29T13:31:35Z

I just posted about this same thing last night

Ned Loynd 2020-12-09T12:31:59Z

This still occurs as of 1.16.4.

owlfalls35 2020-12-27T00:07:19Z

reseting the NVRAM can reduce the chance of a crash.

[Mod] markderickson 2021-02-11T12:42:21Z

Can confirm in 21w06a.

[Mod] markderickson 2021-03-04T14:46:20Z

Can confirm in 21w08b.

owlfalls35 2021-03-28T18:09:43Z

Launching Minecraft from Terminal instead of the launcher returns this error:

objc[2859]: Invalid or prematurely-freed autorelease pool 0x7f952280d670.
zsh: abort      /usr/bin/java -XstartOnFirstThread -Xss1M    -cp  -Xmx10G  -XX:+UseG1GC

I am using java 1.8.0_291. It still crashed with default settings.

owlfalls35 2021-04-17T11:32:26Z

A workaround is run the Windows version of the game via WINE. It can still change the resolution, but it will not crash.

Avi Sharma 2021-11-23T13:59:42Z

the crash sometimes happens on the m1

Cursetopher 2022-04-21T21:58:05Z

I no longer have this issue in 22w16b.

[Mod] markderickson 2022-04-22T00:09:18Z

I also no longer have this issue; this seems to have been fixed in 1.18.2 Pre-release 3 – is anyone else able to confirm this fix version?