Error making desktop alias

[shannah]

[shannah]

This is the relevant section of code.

jdeploy/installer/src/main/java/ca/weblite/jdeploy/installer/Main.java

Lines 721 to 724 in 9aa3667

	int result = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"ln", "-s", installAppPath.getAbsolutePath(), desktopAlias.getAbsolutePath()}).waitFor();
	if (result != 0) {
	throw new RuntimeException("Failed to make desktop alias.");
	}

Some possibilities here:

1. It failed to delete previous desktop symlink.
2. There was a permissions issue in creating the symlink. (including possibly gatekeeper getting in the way?)
3. Either the source path or destination path has some issue that is tripping up the ln command.

[shannah]

Note: Before looking at the code, I speculated that the icon could have caused some problems, but that is clearly not the case. Cause is either related to the app name, or file permissions.

[dlemmermann]

I encountered this issue on Mac OS 13.2.1 on Intel. iMac Pro.

[shannah]

Unable to reproduce on Monterey 12.3.1, Ventura 13.0, or Ventura 13.2.1. (I tried on 13.0, then updated to 13.2.1, and still couldn't reproduce).

This must be either related to the environment, or specific to the app.

@dlemmermann Can you share the app that this was happening with?

There may be some helpful log files inside the ~/.jdeploy/log directory also.