Build issues with MAC OS X Vmware El Capitan 10.11.6

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hello, I’ve been trying hard to find a solution to my issue but no luck so far, so was hoping someone on the forum can give me some ideas.

I have always run the Corona SDK for MAC on my Vmware OS X image, and compiled fine. I’ve currently got, El capitan 10.11.6 (upgraded recently for iOS  10 and Xcode 8) and the SDK and simulator are working fine, but when I click on build and try to build for iOS, it keeps getting stuck on “authorizing build”. I’ve checked that I’ve no proxies setup anywhere.

I was able to build like this fine with older builds and Xcode 7, and have been fine for the past 5 years or so.

Now I get error:

Oct 25 11:13:00.222 WARNING: previously used iOS Simulator
(B0BD14A7-D829-49F2-9675-267525EDCCDB) not available
Oct 25 11:13:00.222
Oct 25 11:13:08.376 Building ios app for - with
2016.2979
Oct 25 11:17:10.324 2016-10-25 23:17:10.323 Corona Simulator[361:2950]
XMLRPC: connection, 7C06399B-B5A9-40CB-982F-2F90BE06BA32, failed with the
following error: The request timed out.
Oct 25 11:17:10.332 ERROR: XMLRPC: The request timed out.
Oct 25 11:17:10.333
Oct 25 11:17:10.348 WebServices: XMLRPC request failed
Oct 25 11:17:10.698 ERROR: Cannot Login To Build Server: ERROR: Account:
-The request timed out. Unexpected connection
error occurred: 11

If you are not connecting to the internet directly
(for example, you connect via a proxy server) you might want to try a direct
connection to see if that solves the problem. Check the console for more
information.

I can browse fine and download fine from the VM, so does anyone have any ideas on what I should try next.

Does anyone know what call the Corona authorize step makes with this xmlrpc thing so I can try to check my network itself.

I am able to get plugins etc from the servers just fine on MAC and I can build perfectly fine on my windows machine also, so I think something else is at play. Maybe the call to the auth servers is using a protocol which the VM or something else is now blocking but not sure where to start looking with OSX

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks

Hassaan

#2

Can you, from the VM using Safari, not another browser try and access:

https://developer.coronalabs.com/services/xmlrpc

And let me know the results.

Thanks

Rob

#3

Hi Rob,

it shows a white page with this

“XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.”

Tried again assuming it was just a one off thing with build servers being down but no luck :frowning:

#4

That’s the response I think we expect for that, but I’ll verify with the engineers. In the mean time can you tell me more about your setup?

What OS/version are you running VMware on?

What version of VMware are you running?

Make sure your VMware networking is setup for “bridged”.

#5

Sure,

OS/version: MAC OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 

Vmware 6.0 and Vmware workstation 12, tried on both

I’ve tried on bridged and NAT both, same results

Xcode 8, and latest daily build 2016.2979, tried with some 28xx ones also

I’m trying to setup MAC OS X Sierra 10.12 now as well as a last resort

#6

You’re running on a Mac with a Mac vm?

#7

Oh sorry, Windows 7 Home Premium

That was the MAC version I’m running in the Vmware

Always used this for past 5 years+ no changes

#8

Something must have changed if you can no longer run something that used to work :slight_smile:

Try the last combination of VMWare, OS X, Xcode and CoronaSDK that worked for you.  If that doesn’t work then something you aren’t aware of must have changed (like a Windows update).  If it does, try with the latest version of CoronaSDK.  We haven’t changed anything that I know of that would affect things like this.

I assume you can build just fine using CoronaSDK installed natively on Windows 7 or you would have mentioned it.

#9

Something else you could try is to force a fresh login in the Simulator.

Exit the Corona Simulator and run this command (it will reset all of your Simulator preferences):

defaults delete com.coronalabs.Corona\_Simulator

then restart the Corona Simulator which will ask you to login.  Let us know if that works.

#10

Yes I can build fine on Windows 7.

VMware is the same, I updated from OSX 10.11.2 to 10.11.6 so could get Xcode 8 for iOS 10 SDK so can build for that. Needed the latest Corona version accordingly :frowning: Don’t think I can downgrade back to 10.11.2 without skipping iOS 10 as that is needed by my clients.

I did change my internet connection/new router as moved into new place and accidentally changed my VM mac address as well, but other things work fine. Just the call to the authorization servers keeps timing out.

Is there something else I can try to replicate the timeout ? A url or call etc, what kind of a call is the application making ?

Thanks

#11

The URL we asked you to visit in Safari earlier is that test.  If it still doesn’t work after reseting your preferences, PM me a _ complete _ copy of the Corona Console log from a failed session.

#12

That didn’t work, so let me run the failure scenario again and will send you the copy. Thanks

#13

While it runs as it takes a while to time out, can you confirm if bad provisioning profiles effect the build authorization step? 

#14

After trying a bunch of stuff, thanks to Perry finally identified the issue. The VM processors need to be 2, instead of 1 which I had set on my VM. Who would have thought :slight_smile:

Cheers guys, you are the best.

#15

Can you, from the VM using Safari, not another browser try and access:

https://developer.coronalabs.com/services/xmlrpc

And let me know the results.

Thanks

Rob

#16

Hi Rob,

it shows a white page with this

“XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.”

Tried again assuming it was just a one off thing with build servers being down but no luck :frowning:

#17

That’s the response I think we expect for that, but I’ll verify with the engineers. In the mean time can you tell me more about your setup?

What OS/version are you running VMware on?

What version of VMware are you running?

Make sure your VMware networking is setup for “bridged”.

#18

Sure,

OS/version: MAC OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 

Vmware 6.0 and Vmware workstation 12, tried on both

I’ve tried on bridged and NAT both, same results

Xcode 8, and latest daily build 2016.2979, tried with some 28xx ones also

I’m trying to setup MAC OS X Sierra 10.12 now as well as a last resort

#19

You’re running on a Mac with a Mac vm?

#20

Oh sorry, Windows 7 Home Premium

That was the MAC version I’m running in the Vmware

Always used this for past 5 years+ no changes