Can't open app on macOS

[achou11]

Installed prerelease 2 (prebuilt version) but when attempting to open it, I get this dialog:

Usually pretty good with these dialogs and resolving them but this one's new to me 😅

OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

[RangerMauve]

Oh jeeze. 😅 Does opening it from the command line give you any error messages? Which version of Agregore is this BTW? 1.0.1?

[achou11]

Oh jeeze. 😅 Does opening it from the command line give you any error messages? Which version of Agregore is this BTW? 1.0.1?

Here's the output when attempting to open via command line (didn't work):

~ $ open /Applications/Agregore\ Browser.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Agregore Browser.app.

This is version 1.0.0-2

[RangerMauve]

Could you try navigating within the contents of the app and running the executable directly? Kinda like what they did in brave-browser

[achou11]

Could you try navigating within the contents of the app and running the executable directly? Kinda like what they did in brave-browser

Doesn't seem like I can do it as described in that comment. There doesn't seem to be a way to run ./Agregore\ Browser as an executable

[RangerMauve]

Can you open up the .app as a zip file and extract it's contents maybe? :O

[achou11]

Hmm still no luck. Curious to know if any other Mac users are having this issue too 🤔

[ikreymer]

I can confirm it worked for me in OS X Mojave. Though, it had the usual 'unidentified developer message', so had to ctrl + click the first time.
Perhaps it is related to that, though with less informative error message?
One thing to check: in your Privacy & Security settings, check if you have Allow Apps from set to Allow Apps from App Store and identified developers. If it's set to only 'App Store', that could also be an issue..

[achou11]

@ikreymer yeah I checked to set if that could be an issue but I have the correct setting enabled and did the same procedure for opening the app 😅 Wonder if the issue is specific to Catalina in that case...

[achou11]

@RangerMauve ran a chmod on the executable so I could actually run it like they did in the Brave issue 😅. Think I got a more useful error message when trying to run the executable directly this time:

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework
  Referenced from: /Users/andrewchou/Downloads/Agregore Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Agregore Browser
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/Users/andrewchou/Downloads/Agregore Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: file too short
	/Users/andrewchou/Downloads/Agregore Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework: stat() failed with errno=1
Abort trap: 6

[RangerMauve]

That's super weird. Could you try downloading the 1.0.0-1 release and see if it's still a problem? Is your machine 64 bit?

[achou11]

Had the same result for 1.0.0-1 unfortunately. And yeah my machine is 64 bit

[RangerMauve]

@achou11 Does cloning and running from source work? :o

[achou11]

@RangerMauve did that and ran the build command. Opening the app loaded from the generated zip doesn't work, but the one from the dmg does!

[achou11]

Perhaps a relevant issue in electron-builder related to macOS unzipping behavior? electron-userland/electron-builder#4299

[RangerMauve]

Oh jeeze. 😅 Would you be down to submit a PR which adds the patching logic? https://gist.github.com/wavifu/7539e5bf84a715f6e728bd14479d477c

[RangerMauve]

Not sure if it'd compile from Linux though... 😅

[RangerMauve]

@achou11 I think the best bet would be to set up some sort of CI for the builds. Not sure if I'll be able to reliably compile stuff without running into weird issues 😅

[RangerMauve]

@achou11 Do you think you could try out the mac builds that are coming out of travis? https://github.com/RangerMauve/agregore-browser/releases/tag/untagged-c95a9b333284266f8a48

[RangerMauve]

Should be working now, I think. 🤷

[achou11]

Apologies for the late response @RangerMauve! Using the dmg got me one step closer but ran into this error:

Sorry for all of the hassle 🙃

[RangerMauve]

Oh nooooo~ 😂

Thank you for your patience! I think I have some ideas for what I can try next

[DeltaF1]

I am getting what looks like the same error on Windows 10 64-bit build 18363

[RangerMauve]

How does the latest release look?

[RangerMauve]

https://github.com/RangerMauve/agregore-browser/releases/tag/v1.0.0-13

[todrobbins]

@RangerMauve latest release loads with no errors although you do have to right-click Open to get past the security lords

[DeltaF1]

Works on my end!

[achou11]

Works for me too! Thanks for the persistence @RangerMauve and feel free to close the issue

[RangerMauve]

Yaaay