Existing Reddit thread with previous attempts at addressing this: https://www.reddit.com/r/OmegaT/s/1Cj3qOG7ua
When trying to launch OmegaT 6.1.0 on my M1 Macbook Air running macOS 27.0 beta 3, the dock icon bounces a few times before failing. When running it directly from the terminal using the java command, it gives the log found at https://pastebin.com/bfWVaNQ9
I was told on Reddit to paste some parts of the log for reference:
```08:00:55.309: Info: OmegaT-6.1.0_0_a79e54055 (started on Jul 15, 2026 JST) Locale en-JP
08:00:55.315: Info: Java: Homebrew ver. 11.0.31, executed from '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk@11/11.0.31/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home' (LOG_STARTUP_INFO)
08:00:55.521: Info: Jar used for plugins: file:/Applications/OmegaT.app/Contents/Java/modules/aligner-omegat.jar (PLUGIN_LOAD_JAR)
08:00:55.521: Info: Jar used for plugins: file:/Applications/OmegaT.app/Contents/Java/modules/omegat-language-uk.jar (PLUGIN_LOAD_JAR)
08:00:55.521: Info: Jar used for plugins: file:/Applications/OmegaT.app/Contents/Java/modules/belazar-connector.jar (PLUGIN_LOAD_JAR)
...
08:00:56.455: Info: Plugin successfully loaded from class 'org.omegat.machinetranslators.deepl.DeepLTranslate2' (PLUGIN_LOAD_OK)
08:00:56.613: Info: Docking Framework version: 2.1.5 (STARTUP_GUI_DOCKING_FRAMEWORK)
2026-07-15 08:00:57.801 java[1489:15860] (
0 CoreFoundation 0x000000018144e448 __exceptionPreprocess + 176
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000180eac5e4 objc_exception_throw + 88
2 CoreFoundation 0x00000001815539e4 mutateError + 0
3 CoreFoundation 0x0000000181553b50 -[__NSCFString getCharacters:range:].cold.1 + 0
4 CoreFoundation 0x00000001813b76e8 -[__NSCFString characterAtIndex:] + 124
5 libawt_lwawt.dylib 0x000000012ed68b38 Java_sun_font_CFontManager_loadNativeFonts + 680
6 ??? 0x0000000111973bfc 0x0 + 4590091260
7 ??? 0x000000011196f19c 0x0 + 4590072220
8 ??? 0x0000000111968144 0x0 + 4590043460
9 libjvm.dylib 0x0000000108917018 _ZN9JavaCalls11call_helperEP9JavaValueRK12methodHandleP17JavaCallArgumentsP6Thread + 732
10 libjvm.dylib 0x000000010899aac8 JVM_DoPrivileged + 1576
11 ??? 0x00000001194ac1d0 0x0 + 4719296976
12 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
13 ??? 0x000000011196f19c 0x0 + 4590072220
14 ??? 0x000000011196f19c 0x0 + 4590072220
15 ??? 0x000000011196efc8 0x0 + 4590071752
16 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
17 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
18 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
19 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
20 ??? 0x000000011196eee0 0x0 + 4590071520
21 ??? 0x000000011196f19c 0x0 + 4590072220
22 ??? 0x000000011196f19c 0x0 + 4590072220
23 ??? 0x000000011196eab0 0x0 + 4590070448
24 ??? 0x0000000111968144 0x0 + 4590043460
25 libjvm.dylib 0x0000000108917018 _ZN9JavaCalls11call_helperEP9JavaValueRK12methodHandleP17JavaCallArgumentsP6Thread + 732
26 libjvm.dylib 0x000000010895df38 _ZL17jni_invoke_staticP7JNIEnv_P9JavaValueP8_jobject11JNICallTypeP10_jmethodIDP18JNI_ArgumentPusherP6Thread + 256
27 libjvm.dylib 0x0000000108960f20 jni_CallStaticVoidMethod + 252
28 libjli.dylib 0x0000000102da1940 JavaMain + 1432
29 libjli.dylib 0x0000000102da4210 ThreadJavaMain + 12
30 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000018131dcfc _pthread_start + 136
31 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000181318ce4 thread_start + 8
)
08:00:57.809: Error: java.lang.NullPointerException
08:00:57.809: Error: at java.desktop/java.awt.Font.getFont2D(Font.java:506)
08:00:57.809: Error: at java.desktop/java.awt.Font$FontAccessImpl.getFont2D(Font.java:237)
08:00:57.809: Error: at java.desktop/sun.font.FontUtilities.getFont2D(FontUtilities.java:158)
08:00:57.809: Error: at java.desktop/sun.font.FontUtilities.fontSupportsDefaultEncoding(FontUtilities.java:338)
08:00:57.809: Error: at java.desktop/javax.swing.text.StyleContext.getFont(StyleContext.java:267)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.util.gui.FontUtil.createCompositeFont(FontUtil.java:82)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.util.gui.FontUtil.getFont(FontUtil.java:70)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.util.gui.FontUtil.getScaledFont(FontUtil.java:65)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.gui.main.MainWindow.<init>(MainWindow.java:133)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.core.Core.initializeGUI(Core.java:247)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.Main.runGUI(Main.java:398)
08:00:57.809: Error: at org.omegat.Main.main(Main.java:247) ```</init>
For reference, my M1 iMac with basically an identical hardware/software profile still launches OmegaT just fine. Is there an issue with my Java installation? Or is there perhaps some sort of mismatch in the DeepL plugin version I'm using on both computers…?