# Autopsy 4.21 not running on MacOS Sequoia

**URL:** <https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-4-21-not-running-on-macos-sequoia/5394>\
**Category:** Autopsy on Linux / macOS\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-4-21-not-running-on-macos-sequoia/5394 "2025-03-11T11:55:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dgreg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dgreg](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/dgreg)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-4-21-not-running-on-macos-sequoia/5394/1 "2025-03-11T11:55:18Z")

</div>

Hi All,  
Hope you are well.

I am currently getting this error after running bin/autopsy in my terminal after the installation:

Unrecognized option: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED  
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.  
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

I thought it was related to openjdk and liberica but it wasnt. After setting to liberica, the error still persist.

I was wondering if anyone else got an error like this before, and if resolved, how did you do it ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RDB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@RDB](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/RDB)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-4-21-not-running-on-macos-sequoia/5394/2 "2025-03-17T22:00:41Z")

</div>

Could be you need to grant whole disk access