Build 920

[Hendrik van Eeden]

Hi James,

I figured it out after reading your reply.  I had copied the app from my main machine to my Headless HA machine’s root level, the copied it to my Xtension folder.  The app in the Xtension folder acted normally.  The one on the roof level was the one that kept wanting o start up.  The dialog was the normal ‘the app was down loaded from the internet, do you want to open anyway’ so I deleted that app.

Henk



> On Feb 7, 2016, at 8:53 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
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> Morning Henk,
> 
> I described the new crash protection mechanism in the release notes. When you launch the app it will basically quit and immediately restart itself. After that it is running as a child of the launchd system in the OS. So there is no regular check back or applescript calls to it or the other hacky things we were doing in the background before. Nothing regularly happens to it except that as a child of the launchd server that will know if the app quits, if it ever quits without a successful termination return code then launchd will restart it before the icon has even full disappeared from the dock.
> 
> The instructions for turning it off are in there too if you really need to, hold down the option key at startup and it won’t do that. Then you can go into the preferences and turn it off, it is on by default though I could change that.
> 
> Can you describe more about what is actually happening? How can you “cancel” a startup? Is it popping up some dialog from the system?
> 
> The launching of another process might be the launchd system restarting it thinking that it’s crashed since you “canceled” the previous one. I think that I set the respawn rate to 1 minute or something. If thats the case then why hasn’t the first startup quit properly? 
> 
> You must be getting some popups from something at startup that are getting in the way of it’s starting up properly? I did test with the “this app was downloaded do you want to start it” system and that worked fine so what else is happening on your machine? Email me off the list with some more info on just what is happening and what messages or popups are displayed.
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>> On Feb 6, 2016, at 10:02 PM, Hendrik van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Aft instilling build 920 of Xtension, a second instants of Xtension wants to start up.  Even though I cancel the startup of the second instance after a few minutes it ties again.
>> Guess I have to go back to build 919.
>> 
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
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> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com
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