CodeKit won't start

[steveblackwood]

I can't start CodeKit on my Mac mini. It used to work fine, so I deleted it, and installed a fresh copy. Still get the same errors, first the one about a perm problem: And after clicking "OK", I get this error: Any ideas?

[steveblackwood]

Additional information:

Found these two entries in Console.app:

7/2/13 5:36:39.832 AM CodeKit[862]: +entityForName: nil is not a legal NSManagedObjectContext parameter searching for entity name 'LPGroup'

7/2/13 5:36:39.834 AM CodeKit[862]: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9431cb06 __exceptionPreprocess + 198 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8e38b3f0 objc_exception_throw + 43 2 CoreData 0x00007fff93fcbd92 +[NSEntityDescription entityForName:inManagedObjectContext:] + 98 3 CodeKit 0x00000001072d11ca -[LPModelController initializeModelGroups] + 183 4 CodeKit 0x00000001072d0dfa -[LPModelController init] + 468 5 AppKit 0x00007fff8c5abdea -[NSCustomObject nibInstantiate] + 382 6 AppKit 0x00007fff8c58b652 -[NSIBObjectData instantiateObject:] + 311 7 AppKit 0x00007fff8c58adf7 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 337 8 AppKit 0x00007fff8c56a11d loadNib + 317 9 AppKit 0x00007fff8c569649 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 219 10 AppKit 0x00007fff8c6bc58c +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 140 11 AppKit 0x00007fff8c6ef5db -[NSWindowController loadWindow] + 199 12 AppKit 0x00007fff8c6ef2b5 -[NSWindowController window] + 77 13 AppKit 0x00007fff8c72fb79 -[NSWindowController showWindow:] + 53 14 CodeKit 0x00000001072ce1d6 -[LessPlusAppDelegate applicationWillFinishLaunching:] + 438 15 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff942ceeda _CFXNotificationPost + 2554 16 Foundation 0x00007fff936477b6 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 64 17 AppKit 0x00007fff8c5c14a4 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 331 18 AppKit 0x00007fff8c5c101a -[NSApplication run] + 124 19 AppKit 0x00007fff8c565bd6 NSApplicationMain + 869 20 CodeKit 0x00000001072ccefe main + 114 21 CodeKit 0x00000001072cce84 start + 52 22 ??? 0x0000000000000002 0x0 + 2 )

[bdkjones]

Hi Steve,

CodeKit is failing to launch because it can't save its data file to the standard location. It looks like the permissions or ACL (access control list) for your ~/Library folder are messed up. Try repairing your disk permissions with Disk Utility to see if that resolves the issue.

-Bryan

On 2013 Jul 02, at 03:35 , steveblackwood notifications@github.com wrote:

I can't start CodeKit on my Mac mini. It used to work fine, so I deleted it, and installed a fresh copy. Still get the same errors, first the one about a perm problem:

And after clicking "OK", I get this error:

Any ideas?

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[steveblackwood]

I should have mentioned that I already had done that, without success. However, I added my user account with r+w access to that dir long enough for CodeKit to create the file, then reset perms to default, and now it's working fine. I guess once it gets access, it keeps it.

Thanks!

[bdkjones]

Hi Steve,

If you're modifying the permissions on ~/Library as a regular habit, you're doing something wrong. Your user account should always have read/write permissions for that folder and all subfolders in it. If you've changed that manually, you're going to break lots of stuff, not just CodeKit.

[steveblackwood]

I've never changed that folder, ever. CodeKit has been the only app to ever trigger that error. I tried fixing perms with the disk utility, and that didn't work (found no errors), so I don't know what else I could have done. The perms now (and before the CodeKit error) show:

system: read & write wheel: read only everyone: read only

Is that not what it should be? To fix the error I was getting, I added (me), then removed it once finished.

Steve