<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Nov 28, 2024, at 20:48, Steve Schow wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I am new to MacPorts, so please excuse if this is dumb question.</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Welcome! Not a dumb question at all, just a bug. <div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I installed macports bash with the intention to use it as my primary shell with Terminal.app. But when I configured Terminal to use /opt/local/bin/bash as the shell, then I get crashing behavior. Specifically I can launch the terminal new window, it will open up the terminal window with bash running. However if I type in an unknown command, it crashes with the following:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">Steves-MacBook-Air:~ sjs$ lasdfasdf</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">objc[61030]: +[Swift.__SharedStringStorage initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">objc[61030]: +[Swift.__SharedStringStorage initialize] may have been in progress in another thread when fork() was called. We cannot safely call it or ignore it in the fork() child process. Crashing instead. Set a breakpoint on objc_initializeAfterForkError to debug.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">Abort trap: 6</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(245, 245, 245); background-color: rgb(21, 21, 21);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">Steves-MacBook-Air:~ sjs$ </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/68638">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/68638</a></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>I’m theorizing that it’s linking up the wrong libraries or something from my MacOS Sequoia system. </div></div></blockquote><br><div>That's not possible; that's not how dynamic libraries work on macOS. They're always referenced by absolute path, as you can see with the "otool -L" output shown in the previous reply. Your PATH has no influence over library loading, only over the finding of binaries and man pages. </div></div></body></html>