I’m having some troubles with my obsidian vault and I can’t understand what’s going: I’m experiencing frequent app crashes (an empty gray window is all that remains opened). I can’t see the developer console as it closes too and when I force reload the vault there’re no issues.
In the system console, on the contrary, I can see all the crashes logs but I’m unable to understand what does it mean: it seems a problem with the “Obsidian Helper (renderer)”. Here are the first lines of the log:
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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process: Obsidian Helper (Renderer) [2321]
Path: /Applications/Obsidian.app/Contents/Frameworks/Obsidian Helper (Renderer).app/Contents/MacOS/Obsidian Helper (Renderer)
Identifier: md.obsidian.helper.Renderer
Version: 0.14.8
Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process: Obsidian [1314]
Responsible: Obsidian [1314]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2025-02-03 15:35:04.5905 +0100
OS Version: macOS 15.1 (24B83)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 57AA00F4-FF9F-12D6-16A9-5DD6AB673E4C
Sleep/Wake UUID: 91B99BB9-12BA-4DBB-8DE3-5CBF2CDF6CFC
Time Awake Since Boot: 1500000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 23705 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0 CrRendererMain 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: Obsidian Helper (Renderer) [2321]
Application Specific Information:
abort() called
I can provide the full log if needed. I can add that it happens both from my laptop (2023 MacBook Pro) and from my Mac mini (M1, 2020). In activity monitor Obsidian Helper (Renderer) is taking 700 MB of memory and total used memory is 7 GB (total RAM is 8 GB). The point is that till some days ago I had never had this kind of problems with the same vault on both computers. I also noticed that sometimes even though obsidian doesn’t crash it becomes sluggish (i.e. if I click on some menus there’s no effect…)
Any help appreciated!