AppleScript fails with -10810 on "System Events" on the first execution. The second execution works fine, if execution runs again immediately.

dhoer / chef-safari

Chef cookbook to configure Safari browser

https://www.apple.com/safari/

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AppleScript fails with -10810 on "System Events" on the first execution. The second execution works fine, if execution runs again immediately. #1

Closed dhoer closed 9 years ago

dhoer commented 9 years ago

See http://stackoverflow.com/q/31058362/4548096

dhoer commented 9 years ago

URLs worth noting:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9981307/silent-install-for-safari-extension-on-mac-without-any-user-prompting
http://jacobsalmela.com/infamous-execution-error-error-type-10810-occurred-10810/
http://jacobsalmela.com/os-x-yosemite-osascript-enabling-access-assistive-devices/
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=11123
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=9499
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=14935
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6696794
https://discussions.apple.com/message/26947015
https://github.com/xdissent/puppet-safari
https://github.com/univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple/privacy_services_manager
http://elementalselenium.com/tips/69-safari

dhoer commented 9 years ago

It seems the issue is "System Events" is not starting until after the chef run completes. An approach I want to try is to fork the applescript using /bin/sh -c and see if that changes the behavior a bit.

dhoer commented 9 years ago

Not able to resolve. A work around is to use retries in the execute resource.