Issue 712 - googleappengine - Error message when launching app engine: The Google App Engine Runtime could not be extracted

Issue 712:	Error message when launching app engine: The Google App Engine Runtime could not be extracted
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Status:	WontFix
Owner:	----
Closed:	Sep 2008
Type-Defect
Priority-Medium

Reported by sridhars, Sep 18, 2008

Full message: The Google App Engine Runtime could not be extracted (perhaps
you are running the Launcher from the dmg?  If so, drag copy the Launcher
to your local disk first.)  GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app may not work correctly.

I am running it from the application folder, not the dmg. I saw this in the
console log:
2008-09-18 16:31:12.772 GoogleAppEngineLauncher[1752] *** -[NSCFArray
addObject:]: attempt to insert nil

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Double click on GoogleAppEngineLauncher

Does this problem exist with both the SDK app server and our production app
servers?
Just the SDK.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
To be able to use google app engine as I could with the older version.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.3 on mac os x 10.4.11

Please provide any additional information below.

Comment 1 by ma...@google.com, Sep 19, 2008

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Status: WontFix

Comment 2 by aleksandrs.zdancuks, Jan 18, 2009

Same problem to me.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.1.8 on mac os x 10.5.6

Comment 3 by sridhars, Jan 20, 2009

It was a weird permissions issue on the application folder - happened with other apps
as well. I solved it by creating another admin user and shifting everything to that.

Comment 4 by m...@christian-faure.net, Feb 19, 2009

Same for me.
v.1.1.9 on mac osx 10.5.6.
Tried to tweak permissions without success..

Comment 5 by chrisdsearle, Oct 13, 2009

Just had this upgrading from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 on both leopard and snow leopard. I run as a non-admin user. The install for 1.2.5 worked fine - but 
for 1.2.6 I had this error.

I tracked it to the stage that it couldn't extract /Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/Resources/GoogleAppEngine-
default.bundle/Contents/Resources/google_appengine.zip since that lowest Resources directory was owned by root. Unzipping it as root by 
hand didn't work either - but - changing the Resources dir (again - the lowest level one here) to give all users write access solved the issue for 
me. A hack, but at least I can work today ;)

Comment 6 by rbregt, Nov 27, 2009

Same issue over here as chrisdsearle. I'm on Leopard 10.6.2 and installed the latest 1.2.7.

I am logged in as a non-admin. I copied the Launcher from the dmg to my Applications folder. Running the 
Laucher from there gave the same error message. If I copy the Launcher to my Desktop folder, It launches just 
fine, but that's not the location I like to keep it...