icy.app fails to start in OS X 10.12.2

[Rob Campbell]

Hello,

When I double-click icy.app and attempt to start it, nothing happens. If I cd to the Icy directory from the OS X terminal and run icy.sh then Icy starts just fine. I am on OS X 10.12.2. I've tried this on a different 10.12.2 install with the same result.

Rob

[Stephane]

Hi Rob,

Did you try this procedure :
http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/faq#30

If you say Icy starts with the icy.sh script, you may try to only just install the java patch from here :
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=fr_FR

Best,

- Stephane

[Rob Campbell]

On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:25:21 AM UTC+1, Stephane wrote:

Hi Rob,

Did you try this procedure :
http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/faq#30

If you say Icy starts with the icy.sh script, you may try to only just install the java patch from here :
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=fr_FR

Hmmm. I tried installing both of those and the result is the same.
In the latest version of OS X there is no longer the option to allow applications from everywhere but a window appears when an application that needs permission to run is executed for the first time. If I re-download Icy and launch it for the first time that doesn't appear. So it may getting blocked by the OS.

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi Rob,

Did you try to right-click the app and click Open from there? This trick makes macOS show the "unidentified developer" prompt, even on 10.12 Sierra.

See "How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper" at this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

Regards,

Curtis

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[Rob Campbell]

I tried right-clicking: it's no different to double-clicking. To be clear, I've seen the "unidentified developer" prompt on Sierra for other applications. Perhaps it's no longer asking me for Icy because I already added it to the whitelist when I first tried to run it and the error I'm seeing now is something ele. I think this is the case because I tried disabling gatekeeper at the command line with spctl --master-disable and Icy still doesn't start from the .app also  spctl -a /Users/rob/Downloads/icy/icy.app  doesn't say that the app is rejected. In fact, nothing is returned to standard output by that command but then it doesn't for Firefox either.

On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:36:12 PM UTC+1, Curtis Rueden wrote:

Hi Rob,

Did you try to right-click the app and click Open from there? This trick makes macOS show the "unidentified developer" prompt, even on 10.12 Sierra.

See "How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper" at this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

Regards,

Curtis

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Curtis Rueden

LOCI software architect - https://loci.wisc.edu/software

ImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer - https://imagej.net/User:Rueden

Did you know ImageJ has a forum? http://forum.imagej.net/

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Rob Campbell <raaca...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 10:25:21 AM UTC+1, Stephane wrote:

Hi Rob,

Did you try this procedure :
http://icy.bioimageanalysis.org/faq#30

If you say Icy starts with the icy.sh script, you may try to only just install the java patch from here :
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=fr_FR

Hmmm. I tried installing both of those and the result is the same.
In the latest version of OS X there is no longer the option to allow applications from everywhere but a window appears when an application that needs permission to run is executed for the first time. If I re-download Icy and launch it for the first time that doesn't appear. So it may getting blocked by the OS.

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[Stephane]

It appears the current icy OSX launcher (old Jar Bundler based) is not compatible with newer OSX system (Sierra) so you have to use the icy.sh script instead in the meantime... The incoming version of Icy will use a new launcher to fix the issue :)

- Stephane

[Rob Campbell]

I've upgraded to Icy 1.9.1.0 but the OS X launcher still fails in the way it used to on OS X 10.12.4
I did a fresh download of the zip file to be certain.


Rob

[Stephane]

Hi Rob,

Yeah in fact fixing the launcher was more complicated than expected. We were able to have a working launcher by signing the application using a real developer account, but then we realized that the way we have to bundle the application made auto updating process impossible. OSX 10.12 add many constraints to enable the application to work "out of the box" so finally we decided to go on an easier and different way :
You have now a simple osx-appfix file in the Icy folder, just execute it once (by right clicking o it and using 'Open' command) and then Icy should start normally (maybe with a warning on the first launch). Unfortunately we couldn't find a better solution for now with OSX 10.12 :-/

Best,

- Stephane

[Rob Campbell]

Thanks, I confirm that works.