Autopsy not working on Mac any more?

[sankardasroy]

I have installed Autopsy 4.7.0 (and also Autopsy 4.11.0) on macbook Mojave 10.14.5. However, whenever I try to open a new case, the application gives error or crashes, saying something like "error in opening a new case".

[sankardasroy]

Let me copy what I see on the command line.

A190455:autopsy-4.7.0 sanroy$ ./bin/autopsy
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory (file:/Users/sanroy/Desktop/MyDesktop/autopsy-4.7.0/platform/lib/boot.jar) to field java.net.URL.handler
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.netbeans.ProxyURLStreamHandlerFactory
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Temp Folder for Libraries: /var/folders/0h/2r6rv_8s7bl_w22jlgn0f2yw20b0v3/T
SleuthkitJNI: loaded libtsk_jni
log4j: reset attribute= "false".
log4j: Threshold ="null".
log4j: Retreiving an instance of org.apache.log4j.Logger.
log4j: Setting [ProgressAppender] additivity to [false].
log4j: Level value for ProgressAppender is [INFO].
log4j: ProgressAppender level set to INFO
log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%m].
log4j: Adding appender named [noEolAppender] to category [ProgressAppender].
log4j: Retreiving an instance of org.apache.log4j.Logger.
log4j: Setting [ProgressDone] additivity to [false].
log4j: Level value for ProgressDone is [INFO].
log4j: ProgressDone level set to INFO
log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%m%n].
log4j: Adding appender named [eolAppender] to category [ProgressDone].
log4j: Level value for root is [INFO].
log4j: root level set to INFO
log4j: Class name: [org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender]
log4j: Parsing layout of class: "org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"
log4j: Setting property [conversionPattern] to [%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss} %5p %c{1} - %m%n].
log4j: Adding appender named [consoleAppender] to category [root].
Using java binary path: java
Exception getting images: Cannot get the current case; there is no case open!
Exception getting images: Cannot get the current case; there is no case open!

[rcordovano]

Autopsy's dependency on the Oracle JDK is no longer being supported by packagers. We are working on switching to Open JDK.

[esaunders]

The log messages posted above are indicative of an attempt to run Autopsy with a newer version of Java. Autopsy requires Java 8 to run. See https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/blob/develop/Running_Linux_OSX.txt for instructions on how to install Java 8 on Mac.