I have a 15-inch MacBook Pro Mid 2010 running on a fresh install of the last supported macOS version (High Sierra 10.13.6). I know this is really old, but except for the battery (which I removed from the laptop) it is still a great machine. Everything works fine except apps installed from the App Store do not start (downloading and installing works fine).
As an example, after downloading The Unarchiver, immediately after double-clicking on the app, I get the following error message:
The Unarchiver quit unexpectedly. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a report to Apple.
Again, this happens with all apps from the App Store (not just "The Unarchiver").
Strangely enough, apps installed not from the App Store work just fine. I tried installing Microsoft Teams, Discord, and Minecraft, and all apps are starting and working normally.
I digged around a bit and found out that maybe this problem is related to app signatures not working for the App Store somehow. For example, I verified the signature of "The Unarchiver" using the following command in my terminal:
$ codesign --verify --verbose /Applications/The\ Unarchiver.app
The Unarchiver.app: CSSMERR_TP_CERT_REVOKED
In architecture: x86_64
Signatures for apps downloaded outside the App Store are OK:
$ codesign --verify --verbose /Applications/Googe\ Chrome.app
Google Chrome.app: valid on disk
Google Chrome.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement
Does anyone know what's going on here? I already contacted Apple Support, but they don't know either and they won't escalate this issue because both my MacBook and macOS High Sierra is too old (and therefore unsupported).
Also, this issue doesn't seem to be related with Many OS X app store apps are listed as "app" is damaged and can't be opened, which gives a different error message.
Here is the crash log, which to me confirms that the certificate is invalid:
Process: The Unarchiver [981]
Path: /Applications/The Unarchiver.app/Contents/MacOS/The Unarchiver
Identifier: cx.c3.theunarchiver
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: The Unarchiver [981]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2020-11-21 11:46:23.541 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G66)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 8E417EB4-CE16-F300-F7D8-8C94E0C5F25B
Time Awake Since Boot: 710 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: Namespace CODESIGNING, Code 0x1
kernel messages:
VM Regions Near 0 (cr2):
-->
__TEXT 0000000100346000-0000000100392000 [ 304K] r-x/r-x SM=COW
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 0x00000001046ec19c _dyld_start + 0
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x0000000000000000 rsp: 0x00007ffeef8b9c28
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
rip: 0x00000001046ec19c rfl: 0x0000000000000200 cr2: 0x0000000000000000
Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x00000000
Trap Number: 0
Binary Images:
0x100346000 - 0x100391ff7 + (???) <4CC58FC2-E9C2-3F2E-8CBE-A89199F4203B>
0x1046eb000 - 0x104735acf + (551.4) <8A72DE9C-A136-3506-AA02-4BA2B82DCAF3>
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 607
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=760K resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=760K(100%)
Writable regions: Total=8408K written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=8408K(100%)
VIRTUAL REGION
REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
STACK GUARD 56.0M 2
Stack 8192K 2
__DATA 320K 5
__LINKEDIT 156K 3
__TEXT 604K 3
shared memory 8K 3
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 65.1M 12
I also get a bunch of errors in the console that might be related, e.g.
sandboxd
Sandbox: fseventsd(46) System Policy: deny(1) file-read-metadata /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store
Violation: System Policy: deny(1) file-read-metadata /private/var/db/ConfigurationProfiles/Store
Process: fseventsd [46]
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd
Load Address: 0x10627b000
Identifier: fseventsd
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: x86_64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Responsible: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd [46]
User ID: 0
Date/Time: 2020-11-22 16:16:27.772 GMT+1
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G66)
Report Version: 8
MetaData: {"signing-id":"com.apple.fseventsd","process":"fseventsd","platform_binary":"yes","primary-filter-value":"\/private\/var\/db\/ConfigurationProfiles\/Store","rootless-class":"com.apple.rootless.storage.ConfigurationProfilesPrivate","rdev":0,"hardware":"Mac","pid":46,"vnode-type":"DIRECTORY","flags":21,"platform-binary":true,"profile":"platform","summary":"deny(1) file-read-metadata \/private\/var\/db\/ConfigurationProfiles\/Store","rootless-flags":128,"platform-policy":true,"process-path":"\/System\/Library\/Frameworks\/CoreServices.framework\/Versions\/A\/Frameworks\/FSEvents.framework\/Versions\/A\/Support\/fseventsd","primary-filter":"path","target":"\/private\/var\/db\/ConfigurationProfiles\/Store","action":"deny","build":"Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G66)","profile-flags":0,"path":"\/private\/var\/db\/ConfigurationProfiles\/Store","uid":501,"normalized_target":["private","var","db","ConfigurationProfiles","Store"],"operation":"file-read-metadata","errno":1}
Thread 0 (id: 537):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff7239e20a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff7239df64 mach_msg_server + 369
2 fseventsd 0x000000010627cbb6
3 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff72257015 start + 1
4 fseventsd 0x0000000000000001
Thread 1 (id: 574):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a7a16 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 fseventsd 0x0000000106287343
2 fseventsd 0x00000001062877a5
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
4 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
5 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 2 (id: 575):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a828a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebe9 start_wqthread + 13
Thread 3 (id: 585):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff7239e20a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4a382ff5 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 341
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4a382347 __CFRunLoopRun + 1783
3 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4a3819b7 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 487
4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4a3bfe23 CFRunLoopRun + 99
5 fseventsd 0x000000010627ed7f
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 4 (id: 586):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a9142 read + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 5 (id: 587):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a7a16 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 fseventsd 0x0000000106283855
2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
4 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 6 (id: 3250):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a8cf2 lstat$INODE64 + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 7 (id: 4051):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a7a16 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 fseventsd 0x000000010628389f
2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
4 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Thread 8 (id: 17324):
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff723a8cf2 lstat$INODE64 + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f661 _pthread_body + 340
2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256f50d _pthread_body + 0
3 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7256ebf9 thread_start + 13
Binary Images:
0x10627b000 - 0x10628bfff fseventsd (1239.50.1) <357b06be-3f03-37a6-8569-4a06ed093172> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/FSEvents.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd
0x7fff4a300000 - 0x7fff4a79aff7 com.apple.CoreFoundation (6.9 - 1454.90) <f320589a-8600-3244-9b55-a645f7eaab35> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
0x7fff72256000 - 0x7fff72273ff7 libdyld.dylib (551.4) <81bf3a82-5719-3b54-aba9-76c82d932cac> /usr/lib/system/libdyld.dylib
0x7fff7238b000 - 0x7fff723b1ff7 libsystem_kernel.dylib (4570.71.2) <f22b8d73-69d8-36d7-bf66-7f9ac70c08c2> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib
0x7fff7256c000 - 0x7fff72577fff libsystem_pthread.dylib (301.50.1) <0e51ccba-91f2-34e1-bf2a-feefd3d321e4> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_pthread.dylib
apsd
Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.secure-apsclient' for <private>
Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.aps-connection-initiate' for <private>
mdmclient
Connection Invalid for service com.apple.apsd
