I started coding on an iPhone app in Xcode yesterday. This is my first experiment and it was a very basic “Hello World” application. When it built and spawned the iPhone Simulator nothing happened. The simulator had worked from Dashcode, but apparently not any longer…
It took some time before I located the error message at the bottom of Xcode, something along the lines of:
failed to launch simulated application
I googled… and located this page:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8376375
And the problem seemed to be permissions, so instead of initiating the long fix I skipped into the directory and had a look.
% cd ~/Library/Application Support
% ls -l
…
drwxr-xr-x 3 root jonasbn 102 Jan 13 09:42 iPhone Simulator
…
Hmrmf, r00t ownership :-/
So a swift change of ownership seemed to do the trick
% sudo chown -R jonasbn iPhone\ Simulator
And now we are back to getting work done… or at least simulated
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