OBS Studio crashes on startup

[Fuzeman]

I am not able to run `obs-studio` installed via pkg. The console output is attached.
I have a JACK audio server running from system boot, if that matters.

 

[hasbeen]

Confirmed:


$ uname -v
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC



$ obs -V
OBS Studio - 32.0.2



$ obs
debug: Attempted path: /usr/local/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/locale/en-US.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/local/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/locale.ini
debug: Attempted path: /usr/local/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/themes
debug: Attempted path: /usr/local/bin/../share/obs/obs-studio/themes/
warning: Get on org.freedesktop.portal.Settings returned an invalid reply
warning: Crash or unclean shutdown detected
QWidget: Cannot create a QWidget without QApplication
Abort trap (core dumped) obs


 

[elephant]

If no one has filed a bug yet, I'll file one now.

 

[elephant]

Fuzeman and hasbeen are you installing the package from quarterly or latest?

Making sure you're not a bot!

Also - what architecture?

 

[Fuzeman]

>installing the package from quarterly or latest?
How do I check? I'm just using what came with the installation.
Here is the output from `uname -v`:
`FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE releng/15.0-n280995-7aedc8de6446 GENERIC`
Architecture is amd64

 

[hasbeen]

FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/quarterly",

Platform: amd64

 

[hasbeen]

I also tried "make" from ports with my experimental FreeBSD 15 in VM
from "git clone --depth 1 https://git.freebsd.org/ports.git /usr/ports"
It failed

 

[drsnx60]

OBS Studio 32.0.2 builds and Runs on Freebsd 16 current, when built from PORTSs.
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #4 main-n283331-cd730bef74f9:

Xorg / KDE Plasma 6.5.2
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K (16) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 [Discrete]
Memory: 7.91 GiB / 63.83 GiB (12%)

 

[GoNeFast_01]

Okay I got it working..... guys. drsnx60 hasbeen Fuzeman

Anyways I read the github issue.... The person that submitted gave the fix also.

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/13079#event-22505526659

Easy Fix yurivict ....


You need to remove all as it need to compile cleanly....

Thank me later.

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/obs-studio
\

make deinstall
\


make WITH_DEBUG=yes install clean
\

That's it easy fix really if you read the github issue it tells you

Anything else we should know?​

The problem disappears when compiled with debug options.

and

pkg lock obs-studio
\

 

[Espionage724]

Can package updates be pushed to repos without testing? Fedora's OBS ordeal had me asking questions

---

obs-studio started fine for me on 16.0-CURRENT too a few days ago (March 2026; streamed Runescape)

OBS Studio 32.0.2 builds and Runs on Freebsd 16 current, when built from PORTSs.
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #4 main-n283331-cd730bef74f9:

Xorg / KDE Plasma 6.5.2
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700K (16) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 [Discrete]
Memory: 7.91 GiB / 63.83 GiB (12%)

 

[elephant]

Can package updates be pushed to repos without testing?

Short answer is yes. Ideally the maintainer catches this. There are too many ports for committers to know how to test every one.

 

[GoNeFast_01]

Well if you follow this:

Making sure you're not a bot!

In reality not really a fix the issue is something bigger in the code with qt6 it seems...

qbittorrent runs for a very long time when it is built with WITH_DEBUG=yes.
This is currently a workaround in this port.

Same in multimedia/obs-studio: it crashes when built without debug info and works fine when built with debug info.

To be continued.....

 

[hasbeen]


# uname -v
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT main-n283901-0bba277f2223 GENERIC
NVIDIA-SMI 470.256.02 Driver Version: 470.256.02


Although obs-studio installs clean now, and there is no need to use ports to "make" it, though it's still not fully functional in FreeBSD with nvidia-driver, due to the following:

From /.config/obs-studio/logs/

03:36:31.759: [window-capture: 'Window Capture (Xcomposite)'] update settings:
03:36:31.759: title: Desktop
03:36:31.759: class: xfdesktop
03:36:31.759:
03:36:31.759: No GL_OES_EGL_image


Maybe related to?

Window Capture silently doesn't work when the GL_OES_EGL_image extension isn't available · Issue #12077 · obsproject/obs-studio

Operating System Info Other Other OS FreeBSD OBS Studio Version 31.0.3 OBS Studio Version (Other) 31.0.3 OBS Studio Log URL n/a OBS Studio Crash Log URL n/a Expected Behavior Window Capture should ...

github.com

I don't utilize or know much about OBS, just trying to see which applications work or don't in FreeBSD. Somehow "simplescreenrecorder", which functions as intended in FreeBSD, have no issues with capturing and recording live desktop sessions, including video and sound.