What
Starting from macOS Sequoia 15.1, a terminal app (KiTTY) installed via Nix fails to launch apparently due to new hardening mechanism in CoreServices introduced in 24B83
Seems this is triggered not every time. If I create new volume and copy the same path with KiTTY on it, it worked on the first occasion but I failed to make it work reproducibly.
@Eskimo I would kindly appreciate if you could highlight more about Secure Launch and related spawn constraints.
Anyway, this is blocker issue for me so I'm rolling back to 15.0.1
❯ open /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/Applications/kitty.app
_LSOpenURLsWithCompletionHandler() failed with error -54.
Logs
❯ log stream | grep kitty
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2024-10-30 09:38:56.005739+0100 0x9383 Error 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: (LaunchServices) [com.apple.launchservices:open] LAUNCH: Launch requires secure launch with spawn constraints, but none are present or valid, so returning permErr for <FSNode 0x600001e656c0> { isDir = ?, path = '/nix/store/wiindrplkcj1mn22x6nbl8clpnz7adpm-kitty-0.36.4/Applications/kitty.app' }
2024-10-30 09:38:56.005837+0100 0x9383 Error 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: (LaunchServices) [com.apple.launchservices:open] LAUNCH: Launch failure with -54/permErr <FSNode 0x600001e778e0> { isDir = y, path = '/nix/store/wiindrplkcj1mn22x6nbl8clpnz7adpm-kitty-0.36.4/Applications/kitty.app' }
2024-10-30 09:38:56.006106+0100 0x9383 Default 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x600002148d20] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.coreservices.quarantine-resolver
2024-10-30 09:38:56.006440+0100 0x9383 Error 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: (LaunchServices) [com.apple.launchservices:default] LAUNCH: Launch failed in CSUI with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "permErr: permissions error (on file open)" UserInfo={_LSLine=4224, _LSFunction=_LSOpenStuffCallLocal}
2024-10-30 09:38:56.007039+0100 0x9381 Default 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: (libxpc.dylib) [com.apple.xpc:connection] [0x14f00fca0] activating connection: mach=false listener=false peer=true name=com.apple.coreservices.quarantine-resolver.peer[584].0x14f00fca0
2024-10-30 09:38:56.007602+0100 0x9381 Error 0x45fac 584 0 CoreServicesUIAgent: [com.apple.launchservices:uiagent] handle LS launch error: status=-54 {\n Action = odoc;\n AppPath = "/nix/store/wiindrplkcj1mn22x6nbl8clpnz7adpm-kitty-0.36.4/Applications/kitty.app";\n Documents = (\n "kitty.app"\n );\n ErrorCode = "-54";\n FullPaths = (\n "/nix/store/h33cy9y53p6dnyzx41a1dfxsr0df8i4c-system/Applications/kitty.app"\n );\n}
Environment
❯ uname -a
Darwin airstation.local 24.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:05:14 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
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❯ sw_vers
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 15.1
BuildVersion: 24B83
❯ arch
arm64