Anki 25.09 won't open on MacOS Tahoe 26.1

Possible troubleshooting activities I am thinking about:

  • Checking the output of env to see if there might be incorrect python or architecture environment variables set. Something telling uv/python that it is an Intel system or to use Intel binaries. Or to check if there are any Conda/Anaconda/Miniconda variables set, suggesting that there is some conda variety installed and interfering.
  • Checking the PATH (echo $PATH) to see if there might be something incorrectly ahead in the path. (But, I think this is unlikely since which install_name_tool indicates that the correct file is being run?) Or, again to see if there might be a conda variety installed and being used.
  • Uninstalling existing Command Line Tools files and then re-installing Command Line Tools, which seemed to help someone, per Shadowed `install_name_tool` can break Python installation · Issue #14843 · astral-sh/uv · GitHub

I need to think a bit more about it…

Edit: added:

Other possible troubleshooting activities:

  • Re-run that failing uv command, but this time add --verbose to the command flags to see if any useful information is printed before the failure.
  • There exists a /Users/username/.cache/uv cache folder. Perhaps deleting the cache might help?
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