Yabai is crashing/restarting constantly on macOS 12

[shaunsingh]

Hi! Sorry to bother you, I do understand that this is beta software and it is unlikely to be supported. I thought I should notify you of the issue, but feel free to close it if you would like to.

Sometimes apps will take a good 3-4 seconds before they tile. Here is iterm for example:

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It seems very random. Safari tiles almost instantly (as expected), and some apps are hit or miss (emacs sometimes tiles, sometimes doesn't)

[HeySora]

I'm getting the same behavior here.
When inspecting /opt/homebrew/var/log/yabai/yabai.err.log, I'm getting repeated messages with Übersicht errors (because I do have some events calling osascript which seems to have broken), as well as MBDisplay: creating data for display 0x1 (main) with bounds o=[0.000000, 0.000000], s=[1680.000000, 1050.000000] repeatedly.

It looks like yabai is getting restarted / is constantly crashing.

[shaunsingh]

I can confirm quitting Übersicht worked. As for MBDisplay: creating data for display 0x1 (main) with bounds o=[0.000000, 0.000000], s=[1680.000000, 1050.000000], I see it while opening emacs through the terminal. Manually restarting yabai with brew services restart yabai seems to fix the issue for a moment

[HeySora]

Even when quitting Übersicht and restarting yabai, it still seems to be restarting every time.

I'm seeing these error messages about yabai in the console, maybe these can help?

When launched manually, it just segfaults after a while.

[shaunsingh]

Same issue here, even after quitting ubersicht the problems came back

[beeaniebee]

Same issue here with the segfault, it doesn't seem to me like it's slower, just restarting constantly

[shaunsingh]

Updated title to match the issue

[beeaniebee]

Ok call me crazy... I need to test it some more, but I've been working or about 5 minutes without a crash, when before I would at least have had 20-30

[beeaniebee]

Ok call me crazy... I need to test it some more, but I've been working or about 5 minutes without a crash, when before I would at least have had 20-30

It seems like the crashing is affected by workflow? I was using only the terminal app for those five minutes with no activity going on in my web browser, but the moment I opened a new page on the web browser, it crashed twice.

[shaunsingh]

Its definitely a per app thing. Right now I'm only using safari and item and haven't had an issue, Second I open an emacs window it crashes.

By any chance are any of your windows frameless?

[beeaniebee]

By any chance are any of your windows frameless?

How would I find that out?

[dominiklohmann]

Closing in favor of #923. Please keep beta discussions to a single thread.