FujiNet Flasher won’t run on Catalina

[Technologizer]

Hi, all. I am using FujiNet with an Atari 800XL I just bought for the purpose, and am dazzled. However, I can’t get the Flasher to run on MacOS Catalina. Gives me a very generic message saying it can’t run. I’m logged in as an administrator and also tried running it as root—and installed the UART driver—but no luck. Any tips?

 

Thanks!

 

—Harry

[mozzwald]

3 hours ago, Technologizer said:

Hi, all. I am using FujiNet with an Atari 800XL I just bought for the purpose, and am dazzled. However, I can’t get the Flasher to run on MacOS Catalina. Gives me a very generic message saying it can’t run. I’m logged in as an administrator and also tried running it as root—and installed the UART driver—but no luck. Any tips?

 

Thanks!

 

—Harry

Can you try running it from terminal as root and see if it gives any more error information? What version of Catalina are you on?

 

I don't have access to a Mac for testing and the build is automatically compiled by github.

[spookt]

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Hi Folks

 

This appears to be because the actual binary inside the .app directory doesn't have execute permissions set. If I double click it as downloaded I get this (Ignore the '2' on the end of the name, it's because I have two copies downloaded):

 

Looking inside the .app directory I see in /Users/paul/Downloads/FujiNet-Flasher.app/Contents/MacOS/

paul@scopuli MacOS % ls -l

total 28480

-rw-rw-r--@ 1 paul  staff  14579393 30 Oct 00:22 FujiNet-Flasher

 

So I ran chmod 775 Fujinet-Flasher

paul@scopuli MacOS % ls -l

total 28480

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 paul  staff  14579393 30 Oct 00:22 FujiNet-Flasher

 

Now when I double click I get:

 

Which is the usual macOS unverified developer warning. This can be overcome by going to System Prefs->Security&Privacy, and clicking 'Open Anyway'. You only need to do this the first time the program is run.

 

Maybe there's an option in the GitHub build process to specify the permissions mask for the binary?

 

Hope that helps

 

Edited November 22, 2020 by spookt

[Mathy]

Hello Paul

 

Have you tried right-click -> Open?

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

[spookt]

43 minutes ago, Mathy said:

Hello Paul

 

Have you tried right-click -> Open?

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

Hi Mathy

 

Didn’t try that, but fixed it on my machine as above. Changing the permissions on the binary inside the app folder fixed it for me and I can now just click to launch. 
 

Edit - just downloaded a fresh copy and tried right-click->open as suggested but still get the error reported by the OP, so looks like it’s a permissions issue in the build. Easy to fix from the terminal as in my post above and once fixed it obviously just works as expected. 

Edited November 22, 2020 by spookt

[mozzwald]

3 hours ago, spookt said:

This appears to be because the actual binary inside the .app directory doesn't have execute permissions set.

Thanks for finding that out. I've added execute permissions to the binary that is available for download.

[Mathy]

Hello Paul

 

1 hour ago, spookt said:

Edit - just downloaded a fresh copy and tried right-click->open as suggested but still get the error reported by the OP...

But did you see that the pop-up window gives you an extra option?  "move to bin" "cancel" "OPEN"

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

 

 

[spookt]

Hi Mathy

 

I think that’s the options you get for an unverified app right? The permissions problem hits before that. Without fixing the permissions on the binary you just get “The Application Fujinet-Flasher Can’t be Opened”, not the security warning. It’s a different issue. 
 

Looks like @mozzwald has sorted the issue on the version available for download now anyway. 

[darwinmac]

34 minutes ago, Mathy said:

Hello Paul

 

But did you see that the pop-up window gives you an extra option?  "move to bin" "cancel" "OPEN"

 

Sincerely

 

Mathy

 

 

 

Sometimes, I have found I needed to run the executable twice before the Open option appeared. I still use the right-click option rather than messing with System Preferences every time. 
 

Bob C

[Technologizer]

Thank you, folks—I tried again with the new version and now it works.

[FreddieBear]

Because it runs on Catalina I'm wondering if it is backwards compatible with High Sierra, which most older iMac users have.