Can't run experiments on M1 2020 Macbook Pro

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OS (e.g. Win10): macOS Monterey 12.3.1.
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2022.1.3.
Standard Standalone? (y/n) If not then what?: yes
What are you trying to achieve?:

Attempting to run builder-generated python code per the ubiquitous Stroop tutorial

What did you try to make it work?:

  • Restarted laptop
  • Installed xcode via command line per StackExchange suggestion
  • Installed latest version of Python for MacOS via Python website
  • Unbound language switch from Capslock key [in relation to an obscure error message I found in the error log referencing the capslock key]
  • Took files containing .psyexp out of OneDrive and placed onto Desktop
  • Attempted to replace values for texRes and nDots variables with integers instead of floats but no such variables exist in my generated code
  • Created new experiment file with only basic text and also clicked ‘run experiment’

What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:
Same error as in all cases: experiment begins with grey screen for a split second, then crashes.

10.0157 WARNING Couldn’t connect to psychopy.org
Check internet settings (and proxy setting in PsychoPy Preferences.
Generating PsychoPy script…

Running: /Users/myusername/Desktop/PsychoPy Experiments/test_lastrun.py

14.1091 INFO Loaded monitor calibration from [‘2022_04_25 18:22’]
2022-04-25 22:55:53.952 python[3292:65134] ApplePersistenceIgnoreState: Existing state will not be touched. New state will be written to /var/folders/vm/r79x0pcd2ml0vx4v99hcctv40000gn/T/org.opensciencetools.psychopy.savedState
2022-04-25 22:55:58.011 python[3292:65134] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSPopoverTouchBarItemButton: 0x7f8bf0081490>) to be less than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
2022-04-25 22:55:58.012 python[3292:65134] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSButton: 0x7f8bf009ecb0>) to be less than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
2022-04-25 22:55:58.013 python[3292:65134] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSPopoverTouchBarItemButton: 0x7f8bf009f3f0>) to be less than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
2022-04-25 22:55:58.014 python[3292:65134] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSPopoverTouchBarItemButton: 0x7f8bf00a1ca0>) to be less than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation.
################ Experiment ended with exit code -4 [pid:3292] #################

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I had the same problem. I don’t have a solution, but I was able to work around it by downloading and running PsychoPy version 2021.2.3, which seems to run normally.

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Ah, I will try this and update thread with results. Thank you!

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Unfortunately this did not work for me. It’s odd, I was using psychopy with no issues, and then got an error message about not being able to find a Colors module and then tried one more time and it just crashed. Now it crashes every time.

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This is the full error message from the psychopy version listed in my original post:

Error Message - Pastebin