MacOS – Recurring ‘Broadcast Message’ in terminal

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Yesterday I updated my Macbook Air (early 2015) to macOS Mojave.

Since then when I open a terminal window I am getting recurring messages. I can't run any terminal command at the moment.

What can cause this message?

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Best Answer

Your system is running something called the Malloc Debugging and reporting a problem in your memory ? It is a program to detect memory bugs. Since it is stuck in a endless loop, the reported memory bug might not even exist.

It reports the same bug in your memory, over and over as seen here.

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More info about Debugging memory-related bugs

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/Articles/MallocDebug.html

To stop the program in Terminal try Use key combination in Terminal Ctrl + C. or, Ctrl + Z , or CTRL+ \

You can also try...

Simple test is to start in Safe mode, or even more simple is to create new user account and try it.

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