Bug #6705
mac 'The application "chirp-daily-20190412.app" can't be opened'
| Status: | New | Start date: | 04/13/2019 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Chirp Version: | daily | Platform: | MacOS | |
| Model affected: | (All models) |
Description
chirp-daily-20190412.app, freshly installed on Mac OS X 10.11.5, was refusing to run. Finder showed an alert reading, 'The application "chirp-daily-20190412.app" can't be opened'.
This is a different problem than Mac OS Application Security as described in <https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips#Application-Security-in-109x>. I was right-clicking on the application, selecting "Open" from the pop-up menu, and then the failure alert appeared. Past versions of chirp have opened fine on this particular machine and OS with this method.
I worked around the problem by setting the "execute" file mode on /Applications/chirp-daily-20190412.app/Contents/MacOS/chirp. I did this from the Terminal, with the commands:
sudo chmod a+x /Applications/chirp-daily-20190412.app/Contents/MacOS/chirp
(Mac OS asks me to enter my administrator password.)
/Applications/chirp-daily-20190412.app/Contents/MacOS/chirp
The chirp app runs. I quit the app.
Then, I repeated right-clicking on the application, selecting "Open" from the pop-up menu. This time Chirp started up.
Interestingly, once I got Finder to start chirp successfully once, it didn't matter if I reset the "execute" mode on the /Applications/chirp-daily-20190412.app/Contents/MacOS/chirp file. The app still runs. However, I will observe that four earlier daily versions of chirp had the "execute" mode set on that MacOS/chirp file.