Audacity not working on Capitan 10.11

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I get:
10/19/15 12:30:58.917 AM Audacity[8561]: WARNING: The Gestalt selector gestaltSystemVersion is returning 10.9.0 instead of 10.11.0. This is not a bug in Gestalt – it is a documented limitation. Use NSProcessInfo’s operatingSystemVersion property to get correct system version number.
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10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 0 CarbonCore 0x9d36ff1d ___Gestalt_SystemVersion_block_invoke + 135
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x9d23488b _dispatch_client_callout + 50
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x9d234767 dispatch_once_f + 78
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x9d235ff1 dispatch_once + 31
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 4 CarbonCore 0x9d2eb9e1 _Gestalt_SystemVersion + 1047
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 5 CarbonCore 0x9d2eb18a Gestalt + 154
10/19/15 12:30:58.918 AM Audacity[8561]: 6 Audacity 0x00462ae2 _Z14UMAInitToolboxtb + 50
10/19/15 12:30:58.926 AM launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
10/19/15 12:30:58.928 AM launchservicesd[83]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

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It is much better to start a new topic rather than jump into someone else’s months old topic. In particular, El Capitan is no longer a beta, non-released operating system. I started a new topic for you.

Please make sure you are using Audacity 2.1.1 from http://audacityteam.org/download/mac and that you installed it correctly as per https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/installation-do-not-run-audacity-from-the-dmg/31711/1

Then tell us what the symptoms of the problem are. When you try to launch Audacity, what exactly happens? And do you have the released version of OS X 10.11? See Apple Menu > About This Mac.


Gale

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I had the same problem, Audacity 2.1.1 quittting immediately upon startup (with a cryptic message in the syslog file) on El Capitan.

I tried Audacity 2.1.0, and it runs fine.

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Have you tried the solution in https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/fix-for-audacity-2-1-1-not-launching/39157/1 In your case that might be all that is needed.

Audacity 2.1.2 when released will not have that specific problem.


Gale