Summary
32bit Only MAC Activation Utilities Fail on MAC OS 10.9Symptoms
It has been observed that running a 32bit only Mac application built with the 11.11.1 Flexnet Publisher toolkit on a Mac OS 10.9 system can cause all the activation utilities to fail with the following error:
ERROR: flxActSvrGetType (50012,42101,1)
ERROR: Operation not allowed.
ERROR: Operation not allowed.
Cause
It has been found that this is due to the way that Apple have developed MAC OS 10.9. With the 10.9 release the error handling that is incorporated into FNP does not meet the requirements for the Apple platform. Therefore an error that would normally be caught and dealt with is being handled incorrectly.Resolution
This issue has been resolved in the 11.12 release of Flexnet publisher. It is recommended to upgrade to that release.Was this helpful?
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