Boot Camp Assistant Doesn't Launch

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Boot Camp Assistant Doesn't Launch

Hi everyone. I have an issue with boot camp assistant, taught someone can help.

I haven't done anything with boot camp yet, I was planning to set up Windows on another session on my iMac so I just opened boot camp assistant to see what kind of app it is, I didn't proceed anything, I just closed it. It happened in the afternoon. Now it's 10:35 pm and every time I try to launch boot camp assistant, my dock slids a little, like the app will appear there but then it slids back, nothing happens, boot camp assistant doesn't launch itself. I rebooted multiple times, the results is all the same. I can't open boot camp assistant. Can anyone help me please?

iMac, Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014

OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

4 GHz Intel Core i7

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

iMac with Retina 5K display, iOS 8.4.1

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 12:43 PM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Sep 1, 2015 12:56 PM in response to withinthefire

Did you modify Bootcamp info.plist?

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Answer 2

Sep 1, 2015 1:00 PM in response to Loner T

No, I didn't. While I was looking for a solution, I saw people were complaining that after modifying, boot camp doesn't work properly so..

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Loner T

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Sep 1, 2015 1:18 PM in response to withinthefire

Please look in Applications -> Utilities -> Console logs for any error messages.

Can you run the following two steps...

Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

and then try to run BC Assistant?

If the previous two steps do not work, then Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up - Apple Support and then boot normally and try BC Assistant again?

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Answer 4

Sep 1, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Loner T

Unfortunately, none of these worked, it still doesn't launch.

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Answer 5

Loner T

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Sep 1, 2015 2:16 PM in response to withinthefire

Before drastic measure are tried, can you check the Console logs for any errors messages related to bootcamp?

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Answer 6

Sep 2, 2015 1:43 AM in response to Loner T

I found these messages:

Sep 2 00:10:55 N-iMac.local taskgated[97]: killed com.apple.bootcampassistant[pid 446] because its use of the com.apple.developer.ubiquity-kvstore-* entitlement is not allowed (error code -67030)

Sep 2 00:10:55 N-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bootcampassistant.54844[446]): Binary is improperly signed.

Sep 2 00:10:57 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[300]: Product reqs: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 00:10:57 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[300]: check: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 00:10:57 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[300]: check: bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 00:12:39 N-iMac.local taskgated[97]: killed com.apple.bootcampassistant[pid 414] because its use of the com.apple.developer.ubiquity-kvstore-* entitlement is not allowed (error code -67030)

Sep 2 00:12:39 N-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bootcampassistant.54844[414]): Binary is improperly signed.

Sep 2 00:13:03 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: Product reqs: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 00:13:03 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: check: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 00:13:03 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: check: bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 11:36:36 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: Product reqs: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 11:36:36 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: check: and(bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 11:36:36 N-iMac.local Paragon Updater[322]: check: bootcamp,not(bcb))

Sep 2 11:36:46 N-iMac.local taskgated[97]: killed com.apple.bootcampassistant[pid 458] because its use of the com.apple.developer.ubiquity-kvstore-* entitlement is not allowed (error code -67030)

Sep 2 11:36:46 N-iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bootcampassistant.54844[458]): Binary is improperly signed.

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2015 6:54 AM in response to withinthefire

Can you uninstall Paragon and test?

If that does not work, then we need to attempt signing the the BCA files using the following command.

sudo codesign --deep -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app

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Answer 8

Sep 2, 2015 7:33 AM in response to Loner T

Actually I uninstalled Paragon long time ago, I don't get how could Paragon appear in the errors.

Do I write this command on Terminal? Because I did it yesterday, it asks for password but it doesn't let me write it.

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2015 9:05 AM in response to withinthefire

The password is not echoed back to you. Are you running ELC?

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Sep 2, 2015 10:13 AM in response to Loner T

I'm sorry, what is ELC?

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2015 10:24 AM in response to withinthefire

ELC = El Capitan.

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Sep 2, 2015 12:18 PM in response to Loner T

Nope, I'm running Yosemite.

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2015 12:38 PM in response to withinthefire

If you type your password correctly and press Return/Enter, does it sign correctly. Please post the output of the command. Your password is not visible to anyone else unless you type it at any point other than the password prompt.

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