These fonts are loaded regardless of what fonts are being used in the JFrame. Search for font book and the app should be the top search result.Ĭlick any font, then press Command + A to select all of the fonts.įrom the File menu, choose Validate Fonts.Ĭlean up the broken fonts (red icon indicating an error in the validation) by disabling or removing the font.ĭigging in to the stack trace of the error, ultimately I found that the error happens while initializing fonts.

Open the Font Book app by using the macOS Spotlight search in the upper right corner. To fix the broken fonts, causing the JVM crash in TSFNTFont::GetFormat() of libFontParser.dylib: This issue is also fixed by using Font Book to repair/disable broken installed fonts. In the discussion, they fixed the issue by using Font Book to disable broken broken Arial fonts (because their crash specifically mentions Arial.) But, in my searches, I stumbled on this old Apple Communities thread from 2013 that shares the similarity of a SIGBUS crash in TSFNTFont::GetFormat() of libFontParser. Unfortunately, they fixed the issue by reinstalling macOS, which isn't ideal. The only mention of the same error I found was this person who encountered the same crash running IntelliJ. This was on macOS High Sierra, Java 11.0.1+13. # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (11.0.1+13, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, bsd-amd64) # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: Here's the summary from the hotspot vm file, I include the longer stack trace at the end of this post. Upon trying to show the first JFrame in the Java program on a Mac, the program closed with a fatal JVM error. I recently ran into a new JVM crash with a customer, and found that there wasn't much online when I researched the problem.

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