OS X binary does not work on Snow Leopard and Yosemite

[ariya]

• Download the OS X binary of PhantomJS 2.0
• Run it on Snow Leopard
• PhantomJS refuses to run

[vokkim]

The OS X binary does not work in Yosemite (10.10.1) either, refuses to run and outputs Killed: 9.

[petermichaux]

The OS X binary for PhantomJS 1.9.8 seems to work on Yosemite (10.10.1). The 2.0.0 binary does not work.

[eugene1g]

@vokkim @petermichaux I had the same "Killed: 9" issue while starting Phantom2 on Yosemite, so I applied a small patch as recommended elsewhere (#12630 (comment)) and recompiled working V2 binaries for OSX/Ubuntu/CentOS - they are available at https://github.com/eugene1g/phantomjs/releases if you want them

[jabez128]

same issue +1

[steel]

+1 here on Yosemite

[herrernst]

From #12974:

brew install upx
upx -d bin/phantomjs

Then it works.

[octatone]

Broken here with any binaries I try on Yosemite.

[MichielDeMey]

Exact same issue on OSX Yosemite.

[1]    57910 killed     ./phantomjs

[octatone]

This is the only binary I could get to run on Yosemite: https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-macosx.zip

[floriansemm]

The solution from @herrernst works for me on Yosemite

[frameddialog]

The solution from @herrernst works for me on Yosemite

[jackblackCH]

The solution from @herrernst works for me on Yosemite

[sylvinus]

Got the same on latest OS X 10.10.2

[milushov]

thanks, @herrernst

[SpyderWeiss]

I searched for 4 hours today to find this solution, this needs to be posted in a more prominent place, but thank you @herrernst !

[iRet]

+1

[ghost]

Thanks @herrernst

brew install upx
upx -d bin/phantomjs

[bartsmilner]

Got the dreaded Killed: 9 with binary on Yosemite 10.10.2 but brew install phantomjs (on homebrew, natch) installed and worked no problem

[iabdulin]

+1 for

brew install upx
upx -d bin/phantomjs

[pyper]

I think I found the issue. I cd’d into the dirs for local storage and the cache, and cleared them out completely. Once I did that no more problems. Perhaps a file format change between versions.

In my case(OS X) they were here:

cd ~/Library/Caches/Ofi\ Labs/PhantomJS
rm -f -r data7

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Ofi\ Labs/PhantomJS
rm -f *.localstorage

[factologist]

I used homebrew to update from 1.9.8 -> 2.0.0 which worked seamlessly on OSX 10.10.5.

$ brew install phantomjs (I was prompted to unlink the existing 1.9.8 -> Error: phantomjs-1.9.8 already installed followed by how-to instructions)

$ brew unlink phantomjs (successfully unlinked -> Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/phantomjs/1.9.8... 2 symlinks removed)

$ brew install phantomjs and the install completed, version updated.

I had to mess with my required versions in my project's Gemfile and run bundler but that is to be expected.

[colinpade]

+1 @herrernst why can't this be fixed in the source?

[vml-rmott]

if this is going to keep lingering, it should be posted as a known issue on the home page.

[vitallium]

#12900 (comment)

[franksama]

+1 @herrernst .. took me hours to figure this out, the upx solution worked for me.

[discorick]

+1 @herrernst

[AbdullahAs]

@soda-wy's solution works perfectly for me as well.

the download link https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.0.0-macosx.zip on http://phantomjs.org/ failed with "Killed: 9".

https://github.com/eugene1g/phantomjs/releases works, thanks.

[xiaoyongwu]

"upx" solution worked for me on 10.10.5 Yosemite.

[jwalton]

Why is phantomjs still broken on mac 9 months after this was reported??? :(

[sebastianbochan]

Please check 2.0.1 version, which should fixed issues.

[lkraav]

Is there supposed to be a 2.0.1 git tag/release? https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/releases shows 2.0.0 for latest.

[MichielDeMey]

2.0.1 is not released yet, check out the latest 2.0 branch.
That branch currently at 2.0.1-development.

[JordanTheriault]

I was having the same problem.
@herrernst +1 for the solution, worked for me on 10.10.2

[danemacaulay]

+1 for upx!

[vitallium]

Works now on OS X El Capitan.

[panxiubin]

I have a same issue
[1] 48389 killed phantomjs -v