I believe 173 has something to do with the app DRM. It is supposed to prompt you for a login to your apple account. This is not happening for me. I've recently updated my email address (and thus my Apple ID changed). iTunes is signed in using the new account. I noticed Home Sharing was still on but under the old account name. I turned off home sharing and turned on again using the new account name. Still no change in the behavior or system.log messages.
It's not just Angry Birds. It happens with Chopper 2 as well. I believe this will happen with any app that I purchase, and I'm not purchasing anything else until I can get these to run.
Repairing permissions helped several users yesterday, maybe that will help you.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
First I reset my apple ID password. Did not help (signed out of app store and then back in, even rebooted). I then repaired disk permissions. The operation said it completed. I rebooted. Still no luck, getting 173 on application startup.
I too am having this issue with Angry Birds and Stuffit Destinations. I have contacted Apple Support and they will not answer the question what is "Exited with exit code 173." They simply ask me to download the Apps again and literally ignore my question regarding the meaning of this exit code. I am very disappointed. I will not download any more Apps until Apple steps up to plate and resolves this issue.
The issue for me may relate to my graphics card which appears not to be able to support Angry Birds per the error code in Console when I try to launch the App. However, I am told the GeForce 8800 card does support Open GL 2.
Well, for anyone else running into the error, good luck. I finally "fixed" the problem. I ended up doing a clean OS reinstall from scratch and then applied all subsequent OS updates and Apps from the App store are now running. Painful, but it worked.
Watching this with interest as I've hit the same problem, app icon just bounces as if launching, and only hint at error is in the console log, exited with error 173, which is fairly well documented as the DRM / Receipt exit code, basically the app thinks it's
not a legitimate App Store install of the app, except it is.
In my case it seems that only paid for apps suffer (free ones are fine), having bought Angry Birds, CodeBox and MindNode Pro on my Macbook Pro (all work fine there), but on my work iMac (same account in App Store and itunes, no others have been used) all App Store apps install fine, but the paid for ones just give the error 173 error. In fact Mindnode Pro I
bought on the iMac and it never ran even after first download, hop to Macbook and it saw the new purchase, installed and ran.
From tips here, google, and lengthy conversations with Apple Care I have;
- I tried removing and reinstalling the apps
- Signed in and out of Appstore
- Removed com.apple.appstore.plist from ~/Library/Preferences
- Looked for (bit found no sign of) anything to do with the apps in /Library/Receipts and ~/Library/Receipts
- Deauth'd and then Auth'd again the iMac in itunes
- Created a new user login on the iMac
- Repaired Permissions
- Pretty sure I copied the App from Macbook to iMac too
- Manually re-applied 10.6.6 combo update
Nothing worked. I have a case open at 2nd line and whilst he acknowledged this thread via google it's not flagging as an issue internally (because no one's logging cases about it! - so call!). I hve to re-run fix permissions from the install disk (didn't have to hand) and if that doesn't work they can escalate, but suspect that will be an archive and reinstall 😟
I've posted here to bump the thread, and in hope that the other routes I tried
might help someone else
What's your filesystem type on the iMac? Is it Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)???
I think this is happening on all filesystems that are case sensitive. Looks like there's a storeagent wrapper added to all the paid-for apps. Anyway, "storeagent" seems to generate a list of files and check to make sure they are all there and haven't changed. My guess is it's getting back a case-sensitive list but is expecting a case-insensitive list. Error 173 is the result.
Hello Apple, care to let us in on the big secret behind "Error 173".
Mac OS Extended (Journaled) on both by the looks of it, can't see any references to case sensitive.
From my understanding exit 173 is supposed to be when the app think's it's not legit, ie been copied from one pc to another but receipts don't match the app store login, etc, (see
http://images.worldofapple.com/validating_051110.pdf) it's basically saying 'this is not a legit install so I'm not letting you play', except it is!
And frustratingly a Snow Leopard Re-install (over the top) and 10.6.6 combo application has not worked either, now am
really stuck, full example error is;
+com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[237] ([0x0-0x3d03d].com.shpakovski.mac.codebox[578]) Exited with exit code: 173+
Hit the end of the road after another session with applecare, we exhausted safe mode and system caches along the way. In the end resorted to a clean install at which point it all kicked in as normal. I didn't risk a full time machine restore or migrate in case it re-introduced whatever was the cause
