App Store BTS update?

It would seem the most affected Apps not opening at all come from Aspyr...

CoD4, but for me KOTOR as well, and Secret of Monkey Island to boot. No matter the amount/type of manipulations, reinstalls, etc, nothing will work for those, whereas other Apps only required a sign-in, and that was it. Not even a reinstall.

That's what I thought, hence finding the last two lines above.

Validity

Not Before: Apr 25 21:40:36 2006 GMT

Not After : Feb 9 21:40:36 2035 GMT

The first certificate says

CA: FALSE

while the other two say CA: TRUE

However, if the last certificate overrides the first two listed, why wouldn't it work as it should? I'll try a full reboot and see what happens, but I'm guessing nothing.

I wouldn't hold my breath... So far, Apple doesn't seem to give a flying f***, said nothing, and basically are waiting for the storm to pass while shoving this under the rug. Devs are on their own as much as the users, it seems. I remember reading somewhere than the devs have to upgrade to a new SDK as the previous ones don't support encryption beyond SH1 or something.

I'm willing to bet when and if Apple says anything about this, it will blame it on the developers because they didn't upgrade their SDK or something...

Anyway, lesson learned. No buying through the App Store again, that's a given. They can shove their 30% where the sun don't shine.

Crap Apple wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to fix this and be able to play COD4? I have tried everything I could think of and have searched to no avail for a fix.

Please read the previous posts before making such a request. If you had, you'd see that we're all in the same boat.

But you're able to purchase the game from another source such as Steam or directly from the vendor. At this time, it's the only option because as Zaroff noted,

"I wouldn't hold my breath... So far, Apple doesn't seem to give a flying f***, said nothing, and basically are waiting for the storm to pass while shoving this under the rug."

Aspyr made COD4 but you're right, nothing they can do.

This is an issue from Apple's side.

Having the same issue too. Get a message saying scripts can't run, whatever that is. Had the application on my computer since 2010 and never had any problems with it. Was playing in COD4 last night, no problems, go in to play today and now the game won't even load up! Not even into the start screen or menu or anything!

Deleted it and started redownloading it - 4.5 hours ago and it's STILL downloading and only about half way!!

This is just not acceptable and I really hope none of my other applications are affected, especially my web building tools and documents!

This seemed to occur right after I connected iPad and let it run that goddam photo library crap! When oh when will Apple stop insisting we have no control over everything we use?

So it ISN'T just me! That makers me feel a little better.

I, too, am a Mac user and CoD4 started behaving this way at the same time. I thought something may have become corrupt because I was playing the game and the server I was connected to was switching maps, which I was in the process of downloading. The app just hung and when I Force Quit and tried to re-launch the icon opens and immediately closes without any error. It's when I went to the OS console I saw the a similar error message:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.aspyr.callofduty4.49952[623]) Service exited with abnormal code: 173

...followed by...

sandboxd[139]: ([281]) storeassetd(281) deny file-read-data /dev

I've tried rebooting, removing the app and reinstalling from the Mac App Store, doing a disk repair, trying to launch using a different user profile... nothing works thus far.

Have the same issue here but with Newsfire. Restarting, running Disk Utility, trashing app, re-installing from App Store (after logging out, then back in) - nothing works. App still unusable, won't launch. Apple Support didn't have a clue when I emailed them.

PGE

And why is Apple not even mentioning it? We have to read about it on theguardian.com instead of hearing from the company who's

a) responsible for causing the problem, and

b) morally obligated to fix it.

Meanwhile we're messing around with command lines and rebooting our Macs like idiots. Nice job, Cupertino.

Exactly! Apple haven't even mentioned this problem. More likely they are hoping it will just go away and no one will notice!

I've also contacted apple support...pretty sure they'll have no clue what to do!

No dice Paul. Fetch and a lot of other apps simply don't work now... Apple, are you listening? I have already requested a refund from Apple and will no longer purchase anything from the app store. Will be going directly to the source from now on to purchase software. I find it quite insane that an oversight by Apple can render purchased software unusable for over 24 hours. I have work to do!

It is still not working for me!!

Have tried multiple variations of removing and re-downlaoding, logged out of App store, logged into App Store, restarted etc - all to no avail!

Try to launch the app and it's lucky if it bounces once then nothing!!!

I still get the:

13/11/15 5:19:30.496 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.aspyr.callofduty4.152992[1935]) Service exited with abnormal code: 173

error in Console!

Okay, I just tried that and here's what I get on those two particular lines:

There's a whole bunch of code stuff after that, but isn't it a bit strange to have these 2 dates?

Validity

Not Before: Sep 24 19:09:31 2015 GMT

Not After : Oct 23 19:09:31 2017 GMT

further down (sorry, it's making me write in this black area) it also has these dates:

Validity

Not Before: Feb 14 18:56:35 2008 GMT

Not After : Feb 14 18:56:35 2016 GMT

and the ones you posted above, further down:

Validity

Not Before: Apr 25 21:40:36 2006 GMT

Not After : Feb 9 21:40:36 2035 GMT

It is still not working for me!!

Have tried multiple variations of removing and re-downlaoding, logged out of App store, logged into App Store, restarted etc - all to no avail!

Try to launch the app and it's lucky if it bounces once then nothing!!!

I still get the:

13/11/15 5:19:30.496 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.aspyr.callofduty4.152992[1935]) Service exited with abnormal code: 173

error in Console!