Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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cowbell
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Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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I would like to try out Unvanquished, but a millisecond after I launch Unvanquished.app, it crashes, without an error message.

System:

  • Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks
  • 13" mid-2013 MacBook Air, Intel Haswell Core i7
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danmal
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Re: Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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How did you download it (website or torrent?). Assuming you downloaded Unvanquished to "Downloads" try the following

Open Terminal (type Terminal into spotlight).
Type the following code in
open ~/Downloads/unvanquished/Unvanquished.app/

copy and paste whatever message comes up.

cowbell
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Re: Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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Downloaded from the official website via HTTP.

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$ open /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app.
$ open /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app.
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danmal
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Re: Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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Unfortunately that error message indicates "An unknown error". Generally this is caused by bad permissions. Try the following commands

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chmod +x /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app/Contents/MacOS/daemon
chmod +x /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app/Contents/MacOS/daemonded
chmod +x /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app/Contents/MacOS/daemon-tty
chmod +x /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app/Contents/MacOS/unvanquished.sh

If that doesn't work then try the open command again and paste the output.
open /Applications/unvanquished_0.26.0_universal/Unvanquished.app

If it does work can you tell me what browser you used to download the file (eg Chrome, Safari) and how you unzipped the file (did it unzip automatically, did you use a third party program). That information would be helpful in correcting this bug.

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Re: Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

Post by JOURNEYMAN »

Could this be related to the problems I'm having with the new maps?

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danmal
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Re: Instantly crashes at launch, with no message (Mac)

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Unlikely, if it was a similar problem you wouldn't even be able to start Unvanquished.

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