Official 1.8 binaries fail to open in macos - error -1703

[pablosanjose]

The official 1.8 beta1 binaries downloaded from julialang.org/downloads fail to open in macos 12.3. They worked fine in 12.2. Both the Apple Silicon (on an M1 Macbook Pro) and the Intel (on an Intel iMac) binaries fail with the same error if Terminal was already running: The application “Terminal” can’t be opened. -1703. If Terminal was not running, it will launch, but will not initiate a Julia session.

Launching julia from the command line instead of the .app works fine.

This problem does not occur with v1.7.

(Thanks Sven-Erik Ekström for reproducing on Slack)

[pablosanjose]

Possibly related: #43111

[gbaraldi]

This is a macos bug on applescript, https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/open-with-finder-applescript-bug-in-macos-12-3/26971?page=2, has other people with the same issue, we could fix it by changing our code or wait for apple to fix theirs.

[ViralBShah]

Maybe easiest to change our code - since it will keep popping up.

[gbaraldi]

If there is someone more familiar with applescript this thread seems to offer a solution https://forum.latenightsw.com/t/macos-12-3-introduces-serious-fundamental-applescript-bug/3666. I'm not sure how I would adapt it. We could also just revert #43111 for now.

[ViralBShah]

Pinging @Evian-Zhang in case they know what to do here. It should be ok to revert as well.

[Evian-Zhang]

Pinging @Evian-Zhang in case they know what to do here. It should be ok to revert as well.

I think reverting is a better solution, since the former code did not depend on open command, which may be more robust.

[pablosanjose]

This seems to be fixed for me with the official 1.8 beta3. I'll close. If someone still has this issue we can reopen.

[mkitti]

I just experienced this with 1.8.0-rc1.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.8.0-rc1
Commit 6368fdc6565 (2022-05-27 18:33 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin21.3.0)
  CPU: 10 × Apple M1 Max
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, apple-m1)
  Threads: 1 on 8 virtual cores

The work around is to invoke /Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/Julia directly from a terminal.

[f-ij]

Got a new Macbook with M1 Max and encountered this issue on RC3, didn't have this on my old MacBook Pro M1.

[gbaraldi]

@f-ij Check if you have the latest macos? it might be that

[f-ij]

@gbaraldi Thanks, that indeed turned out the be the problem!

[pablosanjose]

The released version of 1.8.0 is again failing to open in latest macos (12.5.1) on an M1 Macbook Pro, due this time to an issue with code signing.

Can anybody reproduce?