In Process.php line 441: The process has been signaled with signal “6” when running composer on Mac

As you can see, I’ve been through some hell this morning. First of all, you’re only going to get presented with:

In Process.php line 441:

  The process has been signaled with signal "6".

…if there is a composer.json file in the current working directory, so if you run composer right now in, say, $HOME you’re going to think it’s working, but if you’re here you likely have figured this out…

I did so much googling this morning. But I eventually landed on this, which gave me a clue…

Running composer -vvv I saw the same thing, and running svn --version I was presented with a new error:

dyld[92827]: Symbol not found: aprcryptoblockcleanup
  Referenced from: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/subversion/1.14.2/lib/libsvn_subr-1.0.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.dylib

So I reinstalled svn, php, and composer a bazillion times, no effect. But then I landed on this in my googling and figured, what the hell and ran the suggested fix on that seemingly unrelated issue:

brew reinstall apr-util

And…it worked! I don’t really know what apr-util is, but it seems to have at least fixed my problem for now, and hopefully yours!