Crash after download but before install

[Mark]

Using Sparkle in my app, it fails to update properly on a machine running 10.4. It finds the updated version and downloads it successfully but never gets to the point of asking the user to "install and restart".

Digging around in /var/tmp I found the expanded version of my updated app, so Sparkle is obviously verifying the download and expanding it but failing shortly afterwards.

Launching my app's binary directly from the terminal, the following gets printed to stderror immediately after the download completes and my app disappears instead of showing the "install and relaunch" dialog.

ditto: chmod failed
Broken pipe

Hope that helps. Please let me know if you need any more information.

Cheers,
M

[Mark (markjallan)]

Oops, forgot to mention I'm using Sparkle 1.5b6

[Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)]

Would you try with the latest code at http://github.com/andymatuschak/sparkle? There have been some key 10.4 fixes since then.

[Mark (markjallan)]

Is the latest code on github considered stable? I'll certainly download and test it, but I'm a bit wary about using it in my release software when it hasn't made it into a release (or even beta) version of Sparkle yet.

[Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)]

Yes, I keep the master branch stable and fairly well tested; a large number of developers live on it.

Which is a shitty situation I hope to rectify as soon as I'm able. :)

[Mark (markjallan)]

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying. I don't suppose you've got a pre-compiled version of the current master branch have you? I downloaded it but can't compile it - presumably because I'm on 10.5.8 with Xcode 3.1.3. As a G5 owner, that's as high as my OS and Xcode will go.

While I could have messed around with the project settings to try and make it build, I figured that would probably just lead to different unexpected problems!
Thanks

[Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)]

Okay, here's 561bbbe2941e00511a334f4eb5fc7c0076b8f468, current as of 11/21/10: http://cl.ly/3L9J