Adding 1st site - stuck on loading "Wordpress Version" for long long time

Hey @kenmackenzie – Thanks for your patience with this, and thanks for those logs!

I’ve taken a closer look at them on my end, and I’m seeing some errors like this:

  "thread": "main",
  "class": "WordPressInstaller",
  "name": "RequestError",
  "message": "Could not fetch latest WordPress version.Error: connect EBADF 198.143.164.251:443 - Local (undefined:undefined)",
  "cause": {
    "errno": "EBADF",
    "code": "EBADF",
    "syscall": "connect",
    "address": "198.143.164.251",
    "port": 443
  },
  "error": {
    "errno": "EBADF",
    "code": "EBADF",
    "syscall": "connect",
    "address": "198.143.164.251",
    "port": 443
  },
  "options": {
    "timeout": 25000,
    "json": true,
    "uri": "https://api.wordpress.org/core/version-check/1.7/",
    "callback": {},
    "transform": {},
    "simple": true,
    "resolveWithFullResponse": false,
    "transform2xxOnly": false
  },
  "response": {},
  "level": "error",
  "stack": "RequestError: Error: connect EBADF 198.143.164.251:443 - Local (undefined:undefined)\n    at new RequestError (%%appPath%%/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/errors.js:14:15)\n    at Request.plumbing.callback (%%appPath%%/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:87:29)\n    at Request.RP$callback [as _callback] (%%appPath%%/node_modules/request-promise-core/lib/plumbing.js:46:31)\n    at self.callback (%%appPath%%/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)\n    at Request.emit (events.js:203:13)\n    at Request.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:476:20)\n    at Request.onRequestError (%%appPath%%/node_modules/request/request.js:881:8)\n    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:208:15)\n    at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:476:20)\n    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:399:9)",
  "timestamp": "2020-08-03T13:44:48.042Z"

That’s definitely an odd thing within the logs, which makes me think that there may have been a recent bug with Local on High Sierra.

Has Local ever been installed and working on this computer, with this version of the OS? If you are in a position to do so, can you update macOS to a more recent version?