SOLVED: NSWorkspace launch APIs don't work for non-universal on Intel?

FROM : Alberto Ricart
DATE : Tue Jun 20 22:56:21 2006

I found the problem. It seems that my launch services caches were 
bad. (I used the setup assistant to migrate all my applications and 
data from my ppc machine).

Deleting the launchservices cache files did the trick.

<http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetlaunchservices.html>

Thanks for the pointer.

/a


On Jun 20, 2006, at 3:47 PM, Alberto Ricart wrote:

> No I have not used the launch services.
> All the workspace launch methods have the same result. By name (or 
> path) or by bundle identifier.
>
> Is this a known issue? I haven't tried 10.4.7 to see if it resolves 
> the issue as my MBP is my production machine.
>
> /a
>
> On Jun 20, 2006, at 3:06 PM, David Dunham wrote:
>

>>
>> On 20 Jun 2006, at 12:14, Alberto Ricart wrote:
>>

>>> I have written a small launcher type utility that uses the 
>>> NSWorkspace apis to launch the executable. I have noticed that on 
>>> intel hardware, non-universal binaries fail to launch (actually 
>>> they do launch, but they tend to die with something similar to 
>>> the attached exception).
>>>
>>> Is there a way of forcing the launch to happen with rosetta?

>>
>> It looks like you *are* opening with Rosetta:
>>

>>> Command: P4Cocoa
>>> Path:    /LocalDeveloper/NonUniversal.app/Contents/MacOS/
>>> NonUniversal
>>> Parent:  WindowServer [2040]
>>> Rosetta: Yes

>>
>> so perhaps something else is going on. How are you launching, -
>> [NSWorkspace launchApplication:]? Have you investigated Launch 
>> Services?
>>
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