Re: Exiting installer on Catalina
Re: Exiting installer on Catalina
- Subject: Re: Exiting installer on Catalina
- From: Conor Schutzman via Installer-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:42:04 -0700
And while Installer.app will queue multiple packages, it can (without taking
extraordinary measures) only have one open instance, so should be pretty safe
with a kill command to end it specifically.
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> On Aug 19, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Vachik Hovhannisyan via Installer-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> No, it will kill only UI-based Installer (spelled with uppercase I)
> and user-experience-wise is in parity with the exit()/terminate/etc you have
> been using before...
>
> The command-line installer is spelled with lower-case "i" and will not be
> affected by kill command.
>
> On Monday, August 19, 2019, 04:49:09 PM PDT, Lora Lozano
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, Vachik. The issue with calling system("killall -9
> Installer”) is that if other installers are running simultaneously, those
> will be killed also.
>
> -Lora
>
>> On Aug 19, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Vachik Hovhannisyan <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lora,
>>
>> As I pointed out in my previous posts, Installer plugins are running outside
>> of the Installer process so all the ext()/NSApp.terminate/etc calls are
>> dealing with another process hosting the plugin, not Installer itself.
>>
>> You still can use brute force kill command though
>>
>> system("killall -9 Installer");
>>
>> Cheers
>> V.
>>
>> On Monday, August 19, 2019, 03:41:09 PM PDT, Lora Lozano via Installer-dev
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In my installer plugin code, I display an alert by using NSAlert. In this
>> alert, I have a button which, when clicked, should exit the installer. This
>> works fine on OSes prior to Catalina, but on Catalina, the installer hangs
>> when clicking on this button.
>>
>> To exit the installer, I have tried the following six alternatives:
>>
>> exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
>> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>> [[NSApplication sharedApplication] terminate:nil];
>> [[NSApplication sharedApplication] terminate:self];
>> [NSApp terminate:self];
>> [NSApp terminate:nil];
>>
>> However, they all result in a hang (again, only on Catalina). For example
>> from the console log when calling [NSApp terminate:nil]:
>>
>> default 15:33:16.841249-0700 distnoted unregister token: f4260 pid:
>> 11340
>> default 15:33:16.841301-0700 distnoted unregister token: f425f pid:
>> 11340
>> error 15:33:16.843817-0700 WindowServer CGLayerKit called back to a
>> dead connection
>> default 15:33:16.843990-0700 hidd Connection removed:
>> IOHIDEventSystemConnection uuid:E9477186-1BC5-48C2-AC7E-F34BDEB7AFFD
>> pid:11340 process:InstallerRemotePluginService type:Passive entitlements:0x0
>> caller:HIToolbox: ___GetIOHIDEventSystemClient_block_invoke + 26
>> attributes:(null) inactive:1 events:0 mask:0x0
>> error 15:33:16.844238-0700 WindowServer CGLayerKit called back to a
>> dead connection
>> default 15:33:16.847986-0700 runningboardd
>> [executable<InstallerRemotePluginService(501)>:11340] Death sentinel fired!
>> default 15:33:16.848452-0700 launchservicesd QUITTING: pid=11340
>> asn=0x-0x189189 foreground=0 wasFront=0
>> default 15:33:16.850220-0700 CommCenter #I
>> handleLSNotitifcation_sync: Application exited: <private>
>> default 15:33:16.851097-0700 loginwindow -[PersistentAppsSupport
>> applicationQuit:] | for app:InstallerRemotePluginService (Installer),
>> _appTrackingState = 2
>> default 15:33:16.850615-0700 runningboardd Invalidating assertion
>> 324-133-1049 (target:executable<InstallerRemotePluginService(501)>) from
>> originator 133
>> default 15:33:16.952295-0700 runningboardd Removing process:
>> [executable<InstallerRemotePluginService(501)>:11340]
>> default 15:33:16.956649-0700 runningboardd Removing assertions for
>> terminated process: [executable<InstallerRemotePluginService(501)>:11340]
>>
>> I can also provide a [lengthy] .hang file if that would help.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lora
>>
>>
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