fix(cli): surface HYPERFRAMES_BROWSER_PATH hint on macOS <13 chrome-headless-shell dyld crash

Field feedback (#hyperframes-cli-feedback ts=1784227832, darwin/x64,
macOS 12, HyperFrames CLI 0.7.60) hit
`dyld: Symbol not found: _kVTCompressionPropertyKey_ReferenceBufferCount`
from VideoToolbox when launching the pinned chrome-headless-shell
mac-152.0.7928.2. The symbol is macOS-13-only, so older hosts abort
the binary at dyld load before any browser process starts.

The reporter recovered by installing an older shell
(`@puppeteer/browsers install chrome-headless-shell@150`) and pointing
`PRODUCER_HEADLESS_SHELL_PATH` at it. Their check/snapshot commands
accepted that older cached shell (they do not force the pinned build),
but the render command requires v152 via `preferManagedChrome: true`
and could not fall back on its own. The generic "Try --docker" hint
didn't name any of the browser-path env vars.

Sibling failure mode to the download-time hint added in #2443 and the
closed-with-invite #2078 (SIGTRAP at launch on macOS arm64), and the
in-flight #2481 (Windows STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN); same
`HYPERFRAMES_BROWSER_PATH` remediation, different trigger + platform.

The match is gated on:
1. Puppeteer launch-failure wrapper text
2. dyld Symbol-not-found signal
3. a macOS-13-only symbol OR the VideoToolbox framework

so unrelated darwin launch failures do not mis-fire the hint. The
symbol name is macOS-version-specific by construction — if a user's
dyld cannot find `_kVTCompressionPropertyKey_ReferenceBufferCount`
their host is <13, no separate `os.release()` gate needed.

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2026-07-16 19:25:45 +00:00
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@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ import { formatRenderOutputTimestamp } from "@hyperframes/core";
import { runEnvironmentChecks } from "../browser/preflight.js";
import { detectH264EncoderMode } from "../browser/ffmpeg.js";
import { chromeLaunchRemediation } from "../browser/linuxDeps.js";
import { macosOldChromeCrashRemediation } from "../browser/macosOldChromeCrash.js";
import { killOrphanedProcesses } from "../utils/orphanCleanup.js";
import {
markRenderSucceeded,
@@ -2106,6 +2107,14 @@ function handleRenderError(
errorBox("Render failed — Chrome could not launch", message, remediation);
process.exit(1);
}
// macOS <13 dyld Symbol-not-found on the pinned chrome-headless-shell
// build. Different remediation shape (older shell + env-var override)
// than the Linux shared-lib install, so it lives in its own detector.
const macosRemediation = macosOldChromeCrashRemediation(message);
if (macosRemediation) {
errorBox("Render failed — Chrome could not launch", message, macosRemediation);
process.exit(1);
}
errorBox("Render failed", message, hint);
process.exit(1);
}