Julian, I continue to get the same error as you when I open in Terminal as shown below.
server:j901 brian$ cd /Users/brian/j901 server:j901 brian$ open jqt.app LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/brian/j901/jqt.app. server:j901 brian$ Thanks for your help. No luck, yet. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:35 PM Julian Fondren <jfond...@minimaltype.com> wrote: > I just did a clean reinstall of j901 on macOS to test. My steps: > > 1. unzip the .zip in a terminal > 2. cd to the new directory > 3. run ./updateje.sh > > at this point, opening jqt fails as bin/jqt doesn't exist yet. > > 4. run ./updatejqt.sh > > at this point, it works to run bin/jqt directly in the terminal, but > "open jqt.app" still fails: > > LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file > /Users/.../jqt.app. > > 5. run ./macos-fix.command > > at this point, I can start J with "open jqt.app" in the terminal, or I > can browse to the directory with the finder and click on the green > "jqt" launcher. > > On macOS Catalina I had some extra security-related steps. A window > will pop up complaining that jconsole/jqt/libj.so aren't signed in > turn, and then I have to go into System Preferences/Security and permit > the app, and then on the next run I have reconfirm that yes, I want to > run the app, and after that it's fine. > > So, try this: right-click on macos-fix.command, Open With -> Terminal. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm