Unable to open newest version of Dolphin in OS X Sierra?

[OctoAori20]

So I decided to download and try to open the newest version of Dolphin last night and all it does is instantly close/never even open in the first place.

So my question is: Is OS X Sierra just being dumb or? The current Dolphin I have is the old 5.0 version since none of the newer versions really even open on my 2012 iMac.

[KHg8m3r]

Are you trying to open the universal binary, or the Intel only build?

[OctoAori20]

(08-09-2021, 11:29 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Are you trying to open the universal binary, or the Intel only build?

I tried both, but neither seemed to apparently work. 

[KHg8m3r]

Did you go into the settings > security and let apps not from the app store run?
Are you moving Dolphin out of the DMG to a new folder?

[MayImilae]

(08-09-2021, 09:14 AM)OctoAori20 Wrote: So I decided to download and try to open the newest version of Dolphin last night and all it does is instantly close/never even open in the first place.

So my question is: Is OS X Sierra just being dumb or? The current Dolphin I have is the old 5.0 version since none of the newer versions really even open on my 2012 iMac.

Due to how you phrased this, I'm assuming the typical gatekeeper type issues aren't at play here.

So macOS 10.12 should work, but, we don't get a lot of people testing that far back. My oldest mac machine (2012 MacBook Pro) is running High Sierra (10.13) at the moment, so that's as far back as I can reasonably test.

Would you be willing to bisect this? So basically, you know that 5.0 works, but 5.0-14855 doesn't, so test 5.0-7400ish. If it works, test the middle of the upper bounds of the original set (so say, 5.0-1100), and if it fails, test the lower bounds (i.e. 5.0-4000). Keep cutting it in half until you can find the last build that will run on your iMac. Then post here which was the last build that worked and the first build that fails.

With that information we can look into this properly.

[OctoAori20]

(08-10-2021, 12:34 AM)MayImilae Wrote: Due to how you phrased this, I'm assuming the typical gatekeeper type issues aren't at play here.

So macOS 10.12 should work, but, we don't get a lot of people testing that far back. My oldest mac machine (2012 MacBook Pro) is running High Sierra (10.13) at the moment, so that's as far back as I can reasonably test.

Would you be willing to bisect this? So basically, you know that 5.0 works, but 5.0-14855 doesn't, so test 5.0-7400ish. If it works, test the middle of the upper bounds of the original set (so say, 5.0-1100), and if it fails, test the lower bounds (i.e. 5.0-4000). Keep cutting it in half until you can find the last build that will run on your iMac. Then post here which was the last build that worked and the first build that fails.

With that information we can look into this properly.

So I can confirm that 5.07401 works, as well as 5.0-1102. I even tried 5.0-10845 and it works, whereas the ones that are weeks/months/a year old will instantly just close/crash (eg 5.0-12371).

[MayImilae]

So 5.0-10845 works, and 5.0-12371 does not. Can you finish the bisecting? We don't have Sierra machines to do this on, so whether we are even able to look into this depends on you giving us the basics of when it broke.

[OctoAori20]

(08-15-2021, 11:52 PM)MayImilae Wrote: So 5.0-10845 works, and 5.0-12371 does not. Can you finish the bisecting? We don't have Sierra machines to do this on, so whether we are even able to look into this depends on you giving us the basics of when it broke.

If I remember right, about a week or so ago, I tried newer versions, and the icon for Dolphin appeared and it did its usual "opening" stuff, and after about 2-3 minutes would just vanish and force itself to close; It's done as such since then, so maybe updating my OS build might help? I'm not entirely sure at this point.

[MayImilae]

Bisecting to find the latest version that works on your machine is the start of the process of figuring things like this out. If you are not willing to do your part in the diagnosis, then there's nothing we can do to help you.

[OctoAori20]

(08-16-2021, 10:42 AM)MayImilae Wrote: Bisecting to find the latest version that works on your machine is the start of the process of figuring things like this out. If you are not willing to do your part in the diagnosis, then there's nothing we can do to help you.

The latest version that basically runs, from what I found at least, is 5.0-14837; I'd presume anything beyond that will just instantly cause it to just essentially crash/force itself to speedily close. ?

I definitely hope this helps things! ?