Reaper crashing on MacOs right-click or textbox

[randbrown]

I have not been able to successfully run reaper on my macbook. OSX 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
Reaper x64 5.980

Reaper starts up, but as soon as I right click anything, it locks up... my cursor spins, reaper becomes unresponsive, etc. I have to force quit.

I tried to see how far I can make it without a right-click. So I added a new track, added an EQ plugin, but as soon as I tried to enter a value into a text box, it locked up again.

This is the evaluation version, I have not registered yet.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Same thing.

I tried renaming my VST and VST3 folders, in case I have some plugin that is causing it. Same thing.

I am also running Reaper (mostly) successfully on my Windows machine but it has a problem where audio stutters occasionally, so I want to try running it on my macbook to see if it's better.

Any suggestion would be great!

[randbrown]

Can anyone help with this? I've tried 5.983 and have the same result. The program launches, but as soon as I try to do basically anything, I get a spinning cursor and Reaper goes into a non-responding state.

Is there any command line switch to start in safe mode, etc? Any way to start without loading plugins or something?

And I should mentioned, I have registered now, but it didn't change the problem.

[Justin]

Next time it hangs, try the following:

1) Open Terminal.app
2) type “sudo spindump REAPER” (it will prompt you for your password)
3) Email support at cockos dot com with the report file it generates

[randbrown]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've created the spindump file and sent it to the support email.

[Justin]

Thanks! This issue seems very similar to this one: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=119779 (though with years and many macOS versions separating them). We'll get to the bottom of it (sent email).