LaunchServicesError error 0 - simulator

[Alan Stenhouse]

Please ignore the last message - this seems to now be resolved. Not totally sure why though…

Sorry for the disturbance… :-)

cheers

Alan

On 26 Oct 2015, at 5:09 pm, Alan Stenhouse <alanstenhouse at hotmail.com> wrote:

> After installing LC 6.7.8 RC1 and testing an app under it, I now find that opening the same app in LC 6.7.6 and attempting to run it on the simulator 8.2 results in the error
> 
> “Unable to start simulation: The operation couldn’t be completed. (LaunchServicesError error 0.)”
> 
> The app previously ran fine. And it also seems to run ok under 6.7.8 RC1.
> 
> Anyone come across this before??  If interested some relevant messages from the system.log are below.
> 
> OSX 10.9.5
> 
> cheers
> 
> Alan
> 
> —
> msgs from system log (abbreviated for readability):
> 
> 0xb0093000 realpath_parent_no_symlink: Found symlink at destination path  ….
> 
> 0xb0093000 make_and_check_dest_path: Failed to realpath parent of ….
> 
> 0xb0093000 hardlink_copy_hierarchy: Failed to make dest path for file CrosshairSelector.png
> 
> 0xb0093000 -[MIInstallableBundlePatch applyPatchWithError:]: 82: Could not hardlink copy  …..
> 
> 0xb0093000 -[MIInstaller performInstallationWithError:]: Preflight stage failed
> 
> 0xb0115000 __MobileInstallationInstallForLaunchServices_block_invoke240: Returned error Error Domain=MIInstallerErrorDomain Code=8 "Could not hardlink copy …… UserInfo=0x7c97b5a0 {LegacyErrorString=PackagePatchFailed, FunctionName=-[MIInstallableBundlePatch applyPatchWithError:] …..  SourceFileLine=82}
> 
> CoreSimulatorBridge[1056]: ERROR: MobileInstallationInstallForLaunchServices returned nil
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