Bug #2273
Unable to install strongswan client helper on OSX El Capitan
Description
I am unable to install the OSX StrongSwan client on El Capitan. Probably Sierra has the same issue.
If you already installed the StrongSwan client before and upgraded to El Capitan or Sierra, the client keeps working and you can use the client as always.
The problem occurs when installing the helper. the following error can be found in system.log:
Mar 8 12:59:46 Martijns-MacBook-Pro strongSwan[1816]: *** Assertion failure in -[NSTextFieldCell _objectValue:forString:errorDescription:], /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppKit/AppKit-1404.47/AppKit.subproj/NSCell.m:1684 Mar 8 12:59:46 Martijns-MacBook-Pro strongSwan[1816]: An uncaught exception was raised Mar 8 12:59:46 Martijns-MacBook-Pro strongSwan[1816]: Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil Mar 8 12:59:46 Martijns-MacBook-Pro strongSwan[1816]: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81ca24f2 __exceptionPreprocess + 178 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8124af7e objc_exception_throw + 48 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff81ca71ca +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106 3 Foundation 0x00007fff91d82856 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 198 4 AppKit 0x00007fff8efd9904 -[NSCell _objectValue:forString:errorDescription:] + 180 5 AppKit 0x00007fff8efd9720 -[NSCell setStringValue:] + 41 6 AppKit 0x00007fff8f08ca66 -[NSControl setStringValue:] + 135 7 AppKit 0x00007fff8f2957ea -[NSAlert setInformativeText:] + 77 8 strongSwan 0x000000010c30424d strongSwan + 8781 9 strongSwan 0x000000010c305ae3 strongSwan + 15075 10 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fff8ff6307a _os_activity_initiate + 75 11 AppKit 0x00007fff8f213dbd -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 460 12 AppKit 0x00007fff8f213b57 -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 336 13 AppKit 0x00007fff8f2138b7 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 114 14 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x00007fff8ff6307a _os_activity_initiate + 75 15 AppKit 0x00007fff8f2a5e54 -[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 131 16 AppKit 0x00007fff8f2a5dc7 -[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:] + 35 17 AppKit 0x00007fff8f2a5c1f -[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:] + 107 18 AppKit 0x00007fff8f14afd9 NSSLMMenuEventHandler + 708 19 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cee67be _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 1231 20 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cee5c48 _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14HandlerCallRec + 404 21 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cefb9e6 SendEventToEventTarget + 40 22 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf4599a _ZL18SendHICommandEventjPK9HICommandjjhPKvP20OpaqueEventTargetRefS5_PP14OpaqueEventRef + 411 23 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf70d5b SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers + 59 24 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf70d0c SendMenuItemSelectedEvent + 188 25 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf70be8 _ZL19FinishMenuSelectionP13SelectionDataP10MenuResultS2_ + 96 26 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf4fb81 _ZL19PopUpMenuSelectCoreP8MenuData5PointdS1_tjPK4RecttjS4_S4_PK14__CFDictionaryPK10__CFStringPP13OpaqueMenuRefPt + 1794 27 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf4ec5c _ZL26_HandlePopUpMenuSelection8P13OpaqueMenuRefP14OpaqueEventRefj5PointtjPK4RecttS6_S6_PK14__CFDictionaryPK10__CFStringPS0_Pt + 610 28 HIToolbox 0x00007fff8cf4e853 _HandlePopUpMenuSelectionWithDictionary + 287 29 AppKit 0x00007fff8f29cc6c _NSSLMPopUpCarbonMenu3 + 6168 30 AppKit 0x00007fff8f29b442 _NSPopUpCarbonMenu3 + 153 31 AppKit 0x00007fff8f29b39a -[NSCarbonMenuImpl popUpMenu:atLocation:width:forView:withSelectedItem:withFont:withFlags:withOptions:] + 356 32 AppKit 0x00007fff8f682ef9 +[NSStatusBarButtonCell popupStatusBarMenu:inRect:ofView:withEvent:] + 705 33 AppKit 0x00007fff8f68232b -[NSStatusBarButtonCell trackMouse:inRect:ofView:untilMouseUp:] + 159 34 AppKit 0x00007fff8f222ae8 -[NSControl mouseDown:] + 669 35 AppKit 0x00007fff8f7773c9 -[NSWindow _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 6322 36 AppKit 0x00007fff8f7783ad -[NSWindow _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:] + 212 37 AppKit 0x00007fff8f1b7539 -[NSWindow sendEvent:] + 517 38 AppKit 0x00007fff8f685849 -[NSStatusBarWindow sendEvent:] + 281 39 AppKit 0x00007fff8f137a38 -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 2540 40 AppKit 0x00007fff8ef9edf2 -[NSApplication run] + 796 41 AppKit 0x00007fff8ef68368 NSApplicationMain + 1176 42 strongSwan 0x000000010c303f14 strongSwan + 7956 )
History
#1 Updated by Tobias Brunner over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
This seems to happen in the exception handler of the AppDelegate (just a guess as that's the only place where setInformativeText is called). I suppose alert could be nil so maybe the following would fix it:
diff --git a/src/frontends/osx/strongSwan/AppDelegate.m b/src/frontends/osx/strongSwan/AppDelegate.m
index 8fe997e..967cfc9 100644
--- a/src/frontends/osx/strongSwan/AppDelegate.m
+++ b/src/frontends/osx/strongSwan/AppDelegate.m
@@ -82,7 +82,10 @@
[conn objectForKey:@"name"]];
popup = [[NSAlert alloc] init];
[popup setMessageText:text];
- [popup setInformativeText:alert];
+ if (alert)
+ {
+ [popup setInformativeText:alert];
+ }
[popup runModal];
[text release];
[popup release];
We currently can't release signed versions of the app (see #2089-2) so you'd have to create your own build.
#2 Updated by Peter Nijssen over 8 years ago
Thanks Tobias about the update. Is there some documentation about how to build the app yourself? The part in Github is everything?
I myself have some issues with the VPN connection in Sierra. It drops about every 8 minutes. It didn't happen in El Capitan though.
One of my colleagues didn't had this problem, so that's why I am falling back to strongswans own client.
#3 Updated by Tobias Brunner over 8 years ago
Is there some documentation about how to build the app yourself? The part in Github is everything?
If you refer to the README file Martin linked, then yes, that's all the documentation there currently is.
It drops about every 8 minutes. It didn't happen in El Capitan though.
You might want to find out why that is (i.e. read the logs).