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December 11, 2015
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Problems With Adobe Air 20 for multiple clients

  • December 11, 2015
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We have had 6 clients today who many have told us they are on macs, and we think all of them are on macs, report that our adobe air product will no longer open after updated to adobe air 20. Once we have them install our product from an .air file the issue is resolved. Please note that they do not need to uninstall. They only have to update to an older or newer version of our software and it fixes the problem.

We have also reproduced this same issue ourselves by launching our product, getting notified that the adobe air update 20 was available, updating and now our adobe air app will not run.

The computer where we reproduced this problem was a Mac running OSX 10.11.1.

I'll see if I can find any useful info in the system.log

So I looked at the system log file and after succesfully updating to adobe air 20 the following error message occurred in the log. I have replaced our product name with <productName>.

Dec 10 16:12:06 iMac <productName>[23894]: renaming from\

  /Applications/<productName>.app/Contents/MacOS/<productName>\

  to\

  /Applications/<productName>.app/Contents/MacOS/<productName>_32\

Dec 10 16:12:06 iMac <productName>[23894]: renaming failed with this error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "\'93<productName>\'94 couldn\'92t be moved because you don\'92t have permission to access \'93MacOS\'94." UserInfo=\{NSSourceFilePathErrorKey=/Applications/<productName>.app/Contents/MacOS/<productName>, NSUserStringVariant=(\

     Move\

  ), NSFilePath=/Applications/<productName>.app/Contents/MacOS/<productName>, NSDestinationFilePath=/Applications/<productName>.app/Contents/MacOS/<productName>_32, NSUnderlyingError=0x408df0 \{Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=13 "Permission denied"\}\}\

Dec 10 16:12:06 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.<productName>.1.120672[23894]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1\

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MARC_A2C
Participating Frequently
January 4, 2016

The bug mentioned by nitanwar can be found here: Bug#4098313 - AIR application can't be started under Mac OS X

I totally agree with StudioCloud that hacky workarounds are not a solution and that the problem should not have occured in the first place.

Dear Adobe staff, when will this bug be fixed? Since 8th of December - almost a month now! - our Mac users have this problem. Since uninstall/reinstall does not work for most, we advise them to downgrade to AIR 19 which is a security nightmare in the long run.

PedroDiegoF
PedroDiegoF
Participant
December 18, 2015

I've spent all day yesterday and today's morning trying to work around this.

I have a windows air app that when I tried to update or reinstall it would simply freeze, my task manager have 4 air processes stuck at 100kb or 104kb, they don't close or respond... Only till I tried another computer was that I found out that the problem must be because I updated to air 20...

This sort of basic issue shouldn't happen

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Adobe Employee
Nitanwar
Adobe Employee
December 11, 2015

HI ,

Please follow the below mentioned steps to resolve the issue :-

  1. Uninstall the installed application from the system
  2. Download AIR 20 (Adobe - Adobe AIR)
  3. Re-install the application .

Please let me know if you still face any issue .

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SCloudAuthor
Inspiring
December 11, 2015

As mentioned in my original comment we already have a workaround for the problem. The solution is to simply update our product to a different version but uninstalling and reinstalling also works as well.

Solving the problem isn't the issue. The issue is the problem shouldn't be occurring in the first place. We have customers that are freaking out because they update adobe air and all of a sudden our program won't launch or display any message at all and they have a customer sitting in front of them waiting for our product to open.

Imagine if this was a different program. Microsoft Excel for example. You have microsoft excel installed. Windows installs an update and BOOM microsoft excel doesn't open any more. You now have to install an update for microsoft excel to resolve the issue.

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Adobe Employee
Nitanwar
Adobe Employee
December 11, 2015

Hi ,

We are really sorry for the inconvenience caused, we already have this bug reported and are working on it .

We will update you as soon as the issue is fixed .

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