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Has anyone successfully run UniVerse Personal Edition on an Apple Silicon Mac (Docker + AMD64 emulation)?

  • December 10, 2025
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SergioV

Hi everyone,

 

I’m attempting to install the UniVerse Personal Edition version 14.1.1 on MacOS Tahoe 26.1 on an M1 Macbook. I’m following Rocket’s official PDF (see attachment) on how to do this via a Docker container and using the supporting files from their Github: RocketSoftware/multivalue-containers
 

Because I’m on Apple Silicon, I adjusted the Dockerfile as follows:

Replaced the original FROM to force AMD64 emulation since I’m on ARM:

FROM --platform=linux/amd64 rockylinux/rockylinux:latest

I also added this to fix a permission error that occurs.
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/*uv.sh

 

Now, I consistently hit a segmentation fault in the installer during the init_uvsm step. Below is an excerpt of the output logs where the error occurs after running docker compose up:

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | Starting UniVerse...

universe-server  | UVSMM is started.

universe-server  | Starting uvsm...

universe-server  | /usr/uv/bin/uv.rc: line 562:  3654 Segmentation fault      $uvbin/init_uvsm $init_uvsm_opt > uvsm.log 2>&1

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | Couldn't start init_uvsm. Please check /usr/uv/uvsm.log

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | UVSMM is not running.

universe-server  | Error occurred during uvsmm.

universe-server  | Restore RFS_PROC_MODE to .

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | 

universe-server  | Review /tmp/uvinstall.partial.log if needed.

universe-server  | UniVerse installation aborted.

universe-server  | Install UniVerse failed.

universe-server  | Universe not installed

universe-server exited with code 1

 

I suspect this is related to AMD64 emulation under Docker/Rosetta, but I wanted to know: has anyone successfully run UniVerse on an Apple Silicon Mac using Docker’s --platform=linux/amd64? I’m mainly looking to confirm reproducibility. If anyone has this working, I’d love to hear what environment or image version you used.

I have also attached the entire output log of running the docker compose up command. Please also note that I’m using Rosetta emulation in Docker Desktop:


Thank you for your time,

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John Jenkins
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  • December 11, 2025

SergioV,
 

While I don’t have acess to a Mac, the most common issues on a bare Linux installation are the default kernel parameters for semaphores and message queues. I suggest bumping these by a significant multiplier and trying again.

Regards

JJ