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Georges Oates Larsen
Georges Oates Larsen

Reputation: 7092

Xcode 4 ios simulator permissions issue

I just upgraded to Lion and I have screwed up my ios simulator permissions... You see, when I upgraded to lion I was forced to create a new user, and now all of the Xcode permissions point to that user.

I know this because I can load the ios simulator from that new user just fine, I cannot, however, do this form my original user account -- the simulator DOES open, but it immediately hangs.

I have tried recursively chowning both Xcode.app (which contains my iPhone Simulator.app) as well as the ios application support folder to set my normal account as owner I also chmod'd those same two directories with both a+rwx and a=rwx in that order.

What other files does the ios simulator reference that need to have their permissions updated?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 511

Answers (2)

Rudolf Adamkovič
Rudolf Adamkovič

Reputation: 31486

I'd suggest to reinstall the Xcode. Xcode (at least the App Store version) is not owned by the user who installed it:

$ ls -ld /Applications/Xcode.app
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102  4 Oct 17:34 /Applications/Xcode.app

Also doing chmod a+rwx or a=rwx is certainly not a good idea. Not all files need to be executable (x) and what's worse adding rw without thinking twice makes your system vulnerable.

Upvotes: 1

Jere Käpyaho
Jere Käpyaho

Reputation: 1315

Reinstall Xcode. Here's how: http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/20/uninstall-xcode/

Upvotes: 1

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