OBS Studio crashes on startup

Fuzeman · Wednesday at 10:59 PM

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 · 2026-02-07T04:15:16+0000

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

unitrunker · 2026-02-07T07:00:47+0000

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

unitrunker · 2026-02-07T07:08:34+0000

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

Making sure you're not a bot!

Also - what architecture?

Fuzeman · 2026-02-07T07:15:31+0000

>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 · 2026-02-07T08:56:29+0000

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

Platform: amd64

hasbeen · 2026-02-07T09:16:46+0000

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 · 2026-02-07T10:34:43+0000

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%)