Lion won't launch new or updated apps

Hi All,

Hopefully you can help me out with this, because I'm near wits end with this.

I have had Lion since the day it came out, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. All of the applications that I have downloaded and installed before yesterday worked perfectly. Then, out of the blue, any application that I install or update (not from the App store) refuses to launch. It either bounces forever in the dock or does nothing when it is clicked.

The only system changes I have made are installing Photoshop CS6 Beta and Steam. So far, I've tried:

- Permissions & Disk repair through the Lion recovery partition

- Removing and re-downloading the apps

- Running in 32-Bit mode

I'm running 10.7.3, with all the latest updates installed, on a mid-2011 Macbook Pro. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated, as I'm tearing my hair out over this. Restoring from a TM backup is not really a viable option currently, since my backup drive is 50 miles away and unavailable for the next week and a half (yes, I know... stupid me...)

Thanks again,

-Eric

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 9:11 AM

20 replies

jkwaters

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Jun 11, 2012 7:56 AM in response to InspiredLife

For me the issue was when I unpacked a zip file with the new downloaded app. There was a bug with TheUnarchiver app I was using to unpack that put the file in quarantine, and thus it would fail to launch. The Unarchiver has since been updated and the bug is gone. If this does not help, I am unsure how to solve your issue.

Jun 11, 2012 8:04 AM in response to jkwaters

Thanks JK,

I have just recently started using The Unarchiver. I will check which version I have. Perhaps it needs updating.

Yes, same issue for me... Unpack a ZIP... try to run app... and it does as you described.

UPDATE: Discovered I had 3.0 installed. Have now updated to 3.2 via App Store (previously installed from the web download). Will see post here if that resolves things.

UPDATE 2: Okay. So far it looks like that has resolved the issue. Much thanks. Very glad it was such an easy solution.

Aug 1, 2012 9:21 PM in response to InspiredLife

Others have stated it's an issue with The Unarchiver. I'm having the same problems with new apps, but I don't use The Unarchiver. When I try to launch a newly-installed or updated app I get the following types of entries in the console:

8/2/12 12:06:57.480 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x77077].VirtualSketch[610]) posix_spawn("/Applications/VirtualSketch.app/Contents/MacOS/max src", ...): Permission denied

8/2/12 12:06:57.481 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x77077].VirtualSketch[610]) Exited with code: 1

8/2/12 12:06:57.486 AM Dock: no information back from LS about running process

8/2/12 12:09:58.000 AM kernel: disk0s2: I/O error.

8/2/12 12:09:59.839 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.apple.coreservices.uiagent[626]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error: 10

8/2/12 12:10:01.758 AM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for CoreServicesUIAgent[626] version 61.11 (61.11) to /Users/xxx/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/CoreServicesUIAgent_2012-08-02-001001 _xxx-xxx-xxx-2.crash

Again, the computer seems to be working fine otherwise, and existing apps launch perfectly.

Feb 25, 2013 6:30 PM in response to Vpr99

I am having the same issue. No new application works. In the console, for example for eclipse, I get

2/24/13 5:38:11.854 PM eclipse[36306]: Unrecognized Java VM option ignored: -XstartOnFirstThread

cbriscar

Level 1

8 points

Nov 26, 2014 4:20 AM in response to Wadood Chaudhary

I am now having this issue. Im using Yosemite and have posted the issue there but just curious if anyone else has and updates or ideas on this?

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