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Composer 10.28 - Couldn't communicate with a helper application

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
April 12, 2021
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snowfox
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Hi All,
I've never had a problem before using composer to package apps until version 10.28. When packaging a drag and drop app such as Krita or Blender, Composer has started displaying this error message during the 'Build as PKG' build process - Couldn't communicate with a helper application.

I've never seen this before, it's doing it on a clean install of Catalina 10.15.7 and on a different machine with an upgrade to Big Sur 11.2.3.

It will package VLC successfully but not Krita or Blender.
It will create DMGs ok for all three.

All three are given the same owner/group & permissions before creating a new PKG. Root, Admin and 755.

Has anyone else encountered this issue and were you able to resolve it?
Thanks for any info!

Best answer by Reiven

I was having the same issue. I checked the online manual and found that they added a new Preference for executable type I found that to be causing the issue. I can only hazard a guess that it is not detecting the executable type correctly. I went into Preferences and changed "Executable Types in PKGs:" to "One or More executables require Rosetta" from "Automatically detect executable types" it fixed the error.

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Zelto
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 18, 2023

On composer 10.49.0. This is still an issue, and the fix still works.

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rivive
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
October 19, 2023

This worked for me as well!

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sousap
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
October 24, 2023

Thank you! Weird how this hasn't been patched yet.

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orales
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
November 29, 2023

Thank you very much.You`ve been very helpful.

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user-ohpwZciZUM
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
December 4, 2023

Thank you so much, you've been a great help

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bwerner
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Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 31, 2024

Thanks a lot! It fixed my problem with gimp 2.10.36 (apple chips).

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miniberry
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Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 26, 2024

I was having the same issue. I checked the online manual and found that they added a new Preference for executable type I found that to be causing the issue. I can only hazard a guess that it is not detecting the executable type correctly. I went into Preferences and changed "Executable Types in PKGs:" to "One or More executables require Rosetta" from "Automatically detect executable types" it fixed the error.

Oh.my.goodness, you guyss!! Thanks so much for this solution @Reiven I was having issues packaging JASP and it kept failing (hasn't happened before) and couldn't figure out what the issue was, searched for the error code and came across this thread. This fixed it! Grateful for this community. Thank you!