Orbstack v2 Crashes

[justinlindh-alation]

Describe the bug

After upgrading to V2.0.0 I am experiencing hard Orbstack docker daemon crashes. This seems to occur when heavy I/O operations are performed against mounted volumes.

The following error appears and the docker subsystem becomes unresponsive. This did not occur in v1 and appears to be a regression.

To Reproduce

Use a container with very heavy disk I/O and a mounted volume.

Expected behavior

No response

Diagnostic report (REQUIRED)

OrbStack info:
Version: 2.0.0
Commit: 2e97a938e72f9a01f75fb6550bd67be43df149b3 (v2.0.0)

System info:
macOS: 15.6 (24G84)
CPU: arm64, 10 cores
CPU model: Apple M1 Max
Model: MacBookPro18,2
Memory: 32 GiB

Full report: https://orbstack.dev/_admin/diag/orbstack-diagreport_2025-08-22T23-58-52.403130Z.zip

Screenshots and additional context (optional)

[crslade]

Can confirm, happens on MacOS 26 beta 7. Same error. Any ideas on how to restart the docker system without rebooting?

Update: I was able to get OrbStack to shutdown, I just had to wait a few minutes. Quiting and restarting should get your containers back up, until the next crash.

[justinlindh-alation]

Update: I was able to get OrbStack to shutdown, I just had to wait a few minutes. Quiting and restarting should get your containers back up, until the next crash.

I've also noticed that waiting a few minutes is the key for this crash, too.

This is 100% reproducible on my environment and I need to revert (and halt my team from updating) until this is fully resolved and am unable to find the previous version (v1.11.3) on the Older Versions page. If someone can provide a URL to that, meanwhile, that would be helpful.

[crslade]

Update: I was able to get OrbStack to shutdown, I just had to wait a few minutes. Quiting and restarting should get your containers back up, until the next crash.

I've also noticed that waiting a few minutes is the key for this crash, too.

This is 100% reproducible on my environment and I need to revert (and halt my team from updating) until this is fully resolved and am unable to find the previous version (v1.11.3) on the Older Versions page. If someone can provide a URL to that,

I was able to download the 1.10 version and upgrade to 1.11.3 from there. But, the upgrade didn’t offer 2.0 at the time.

[kdrag0n]

We're only rolling this out to 15% of users at the moment.

[kdrag0n]

Temporarily stopped rolling out while we look into this.

[kdrag0n]

Also added 1.11.3 to the older versions page.

[justinlindh-alation]

Thank you, @kdrag0n - that was the right call. I look forward to the fixed version!

Edit: Can confirm that downgrading eliminated this issue and didn't seem to cause regression, in my case.

[kdrag0n]

Can you try this build and let me know if it works? https://cdn-updates.orbstack.dev/exp/OrbStack_v2.0.1_19782_arm64.dmg

[kdrag0n]

Fixed in v2.0.1.

[justinlindh-alation]

Can you try this build and let me know if it works? https://cdn-updates.orbstack.dev/exp/OrbStack_v2.0.1_19782_arm64.dmg

I get a 404 on that URL.