rvictl not working on big sur and ios 14 beta 3

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Created Jul ’20

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I'm trying to inspect network traffic on an iphone 11 pro, I use:

rvictl -s [UDID]

on terminal and it closes after a couple seconds without any error. I know the UDID is correct because if I use a wrong one it brings up the help . I installed most of the extra tools I found for xcode and such and rvictl is available, it just doesnt work.

Answered by Engineer in 694420022

This issue (81125115) was fixed in Xcode 13.0 (13A233).

Disabling SIP as a workaround is no longer needed, so I recommend enabling SIP (check with csrutil status).

For Apple Silicon Macs, the Reduced Security policy "Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers" is still needed, instructions here.

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Answer 1

Engineer OP

Apple

Nov ’21

Recommended

This issue (81125115) was fixed in Xcode 13.0 (13A233).

Disabling SIP as a workaround is no longer needed, so I recommend enabling SIP (check with csrutil status).

For Apple Silicon Macs, the Reduced Security policy "Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers" is still needed, instructions here.

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Answer 2

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Nov ’21

The rviN device lasts for 20 seconds until the idle timer fires.

I’m not sure what’s going on here but, if you can reproduce this consistently, I’d appreciate you filing a bug against the RVI mechanism. Please attached two sysdiagnose logs, one from the Mac and one from the iOS device, taken immediately after things break down.

And if you can post your bug number, just for the record, that’d be grand.

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Answer 3

gizmo_pas OP

Dec ’21

Hi, what helped for me [IOS 11.6 Big Sur - XCode 13.1]

rvictl had 2 locations on 'which' command, one with a double //

$ which -a rvictl
/Library/Apple/usr/bin//rvictl
/Library/Apple/usr/bin/rvictl

removing the '/Library/Apple/usr/bin//rvictl' from the PATH variable helped for me. I hope it works well for you too :-)

#list the PATH variables:
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin/:/usr/local/share/dotnet:/opt/X11/bin:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS

#copy the returned variable and remove the one with //rvictl and overwrite with the new paths:
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/dotnet:/opt/X11/bin:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS

Now the 'which' command should only return a single instance:

$ which -a rvictl
/Library/Apple/usr/bin/rvictl

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Answer 4

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’22

Folks, I’ve locked this thread. That’s because:

There have been significant improvements to RVI in recent releases, as indicated by the Apple Recommended answer.
This thread is now 3 pages long which makes it hard to find new posts or comments.

If you continue to have RVI problems, feel free to start a new thread with the details.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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