Obsidian stopped rendering on macOS

[epelofske]

This bug is quite strange and its characteristics make it difficult to debug, or reproduce. The bug is that Obsidian windows will not render correctly - the window outline renders, but nothing else.

Steps to reproduce

I do not know what triggered this bug - I did not perform an update on the OS, OS drivers, or Obsidian itself. One day app was working fine, next day nothing would render.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

No - because of the nature of this bug, I can not select menu items in the app such as " Settings > Appearance > Check for updates".

However, I have tried as much troubleshooting as I can - machine restarts, restarting the application, and I tried installing the newest version of Obsidian (1.5.3). The newer version of Obsidian exhibited nearly identical behavior to the older version I have.

Expected result

Expected the app to launch.

Actual result

Windows did not render.

Environment

It appears that I can not get debug info output (is there a command line version I could try?). My OS is MacOS 14.2.1

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Additional information

I know that Obsidian does start - I can find its PID and it is consuming some memory and CPU.

Screenshot of the screen when I open the app is attached:

[ariehen]

It seems the same, or related at least, to this:

Obsidian screen goes black (or white, crash)

Steps to reproduce I opened obsidian Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N] Y Expected result It doesn’t turn to a black screen Actual result the screen turns black and nothing can be done including opening the console or any keyboard shortcuts Environment This system info is wrong. I have windows 11. SYSTEM INFO: Obsidian version: v1.4.16 Installer version: v1.4.16 Operating system: Windows 10 Home 10.0.22631 Login status: logged in Catalyst license: none Insider build t…

[WhiteNoise]

I am not sure it’s exactly that.
If it happens when starting the app try this Obsidian shows blank window when launched

[epelofske]

Yes! That is the same issue I was having, and moving the .obsidian directory (or just deleting it) fixed the problem for both versions of Obsidian. I should not that renaming only the workspace.json file did not fix the issue, I needed to remove the entire directory.