Question

Running SMJobBless:

(PrefPane project xcode version 4 Build 4A304a)

SMJobBless(kSMDomainSystemLaunchd, @"com.coderama.coderamaHelper", authRef, &err);

Causes this error:

System Preferences[22312:903] Bless Error: Error Domain=kSMErrorDomainFramework Code=5 UserInfo=0x2005790e0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kSMErrorDomainFramework error 5 - The tool at the specified path is not valid.)"

Below are my plists.

Can anyone decipher the error message so I can attempt to troubleshoot this? I have gone over all of my plists to make sure the names match-up.

coderama-info.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>${EXECUTABLE_NAME}</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.coderama.${PRODUCT_NAME:rfc1034identifier}</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>${PRODUCT_NAME}</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>BNDL</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>1.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
    <string>????</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>1.0</string>
    <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
    <string>Copyright © 2012 coderama. All rights reserved.</string>
    <key>NSMainNibFile</key>
    <string>coderama</string>
    <key>NSPrefPaneIconFile</key>
    <string>show_wireframe_zoom_24.gif</string>
    <key>NSPrefPaneIconLabel</key>
    <string>coderama</string>
    <key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
    <string>coderama</string>
    <key>SMPrivilegedExecutables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.coderama.coderamaHelper</key>
        <string>identifier com.coderama.coderamaHelper and certificate leaf[subject.CN] = &quot;Joe Developer&quot;</string>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

coderamaHelper-info.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.coderama.coderamaHelper</string>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>coderamaHelper</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>1.0</string>
    <key>SMAuthorizedClients</key>
    <array>
        <string>identifier com.coderama.coderama and certificate leaf[subject.CN] = &quot;Joe Developer&quot;</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

coderamaHelper-Launchd.plist looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.coderama.coderamaHelper</string>
    <key>MachServices</key>
    <dict>
        <key>com.coderama.coderamaHelper.mach</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Answer 1

An Apple developer replied to me stating that SMJobBless only works with Applications only.