We (Thursby) got bit by the same problem with Apple's installer. It is a
known problem, but I doubt it is documented.
Paul
> From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:42:35 -0600
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges error -60008 (probably SOLVED)
>
> A person who seems to want anonymity wrote off-list:
>> I have gotten this error when the TMPDIR environment variable is not
>> pointing to a valid location.
>>
> This is interesting. My application, when it gets error -60008, is run
> from a postflight script by Apple's Installer.app. The TMPDIR it
> inherits is of a name that refers to my installation package. The
> directory is present during installation. After the error, I looked and
> that directory is gone.
>
> I altered the postflight script to create a directory and set TMPDIR to
> it. The error does not recur. So my problem is solved (unless my tests
> have been on the lucky end of the intermittency).
>
> This is bizarre behavior, though. Was there documentation for this
> quirk? How did my off-list correspondent find out about it?
>
> And boy, is Thunderbird a crappy mailer. I discover that it stripped all
> the leading tabs from the code I posted. My apologies for the illegible
> code.
>
> — F
>>> From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
>>> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:08:15 -0600
>>> To: <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges error -60008
>>>
>>> Searching for "-60008" at apple.com leads me to this list; if there's a
>>> better forum, please let me know what it is.
>>>
>>> I have a Carbon application that executes about half a dozen tools with
>>> elevated privileges, using AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges.
>>>
>>> One of those calls, intermittently, and only on Leopard, fails to run
>>> the tool, instead returning -60008, "An unrecognized internal error
>>> occurred." No console message appears.
>>>
>>> The call consistently worked on Tiger (or at least I had no complaints),
>>> and comparing it to known-good calls and setups shows no obvious
>>> differences.
>>>
>>> My reports say that the call does work when my application is
>>> re-launched and the AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges is attempted again.
>>>
>>> I am out of ideas, and of course the "internal error" dampens my hopes
>>> that there is something I can do. I'd appreciate any advice on how to
>>> cure or debug this problem.
>>>
> ...
>>> Thanks for your attention,
>>>
>>> ‹ F
>
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