Known Issue: FME fails to run on macOS Monterey

Symptom

After upgrading to macOS Monterey, FME workspaces are failing to run. Error messages can vary depending on what action you are trying, errors can include:

• Failing to add a reader:

Error running translation. Workspace generation failed. Parameter file was <path>

• If running via command line, the error may state "segmentation fault"

Resolution

This issue has been resolved in FME 2021.1.3.1 build 21635 or newer: safe.com/downloads

If you are needing to work with an older version of FME on macOS Monterey, we have a patch attached to this article to allow legacy versions of FME work:

1. Download the attached file libtcmalloc_minimal.4.dylib.zip and unzip the file:
2. Patch the legacy version of FME you are looking to use. As an example from the Terminal: 

   sudo cp ~/Downloads/libtcmalloc_minimal.4.dylib /Library/FME/<version of FME>/fmecore