Biber down on Mac if not restarted for several days

[hjr0]

Somehow when using Mac + Texmaker + TexLive, after running several days without shutting down (power off) Mac and restarting, biber tended to crash for some reason not known to me so far. Happened to me and my batchmate as well, biber just exit with msg below poped up:

Process started

INFO - This is Biber 2.14 INFO - Logfile is 'main.blg' INFO - Reading 'main.bcf' INFO - Found 59 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Found 1 citekeys in bib section 1 INFO - Found 0 citekeys in bib section 0 INFO - Processing section 0 INFO - Globbing data source 'references.bib' INFO - Globbed data source 'references.bib' to references.bib INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 'references.bib' for section 0 INFO - LaTeX decoding ... INFO - Found BibTeX data source 'references.bib'

Process exited with error(s)

references.bib for sure nothing wrong, and simply restarting Mac will work. If any one who use this template on Mac is facing the same issue, don't break your Mac, we can still rescue, tho not ideal so far ^^

Best,
Jinrong

[hjr0]

Turns out to be erroneous biber cache:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/543837/very-strange-error-suddenly-appeared-running-biber
Simply run
rm -rf $(biber --cache)
in Mac Terminal will do.

Cheers!