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My company has signed the redistribution agreement and I've been working on building an installer using the PackageMaker application built into Mac OS X.
I'm seeing behavior where the installer fails every other time that it is run. The output from .airappinstall.log is below.
I've reproduced this behavior from the installer as well as by running the following command line:
sudo /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ AIR\ Application\ Installer -silent /MyApp.air
Has anyone seen this behavior before?
Starting silent x1 install from file:///tmp/MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer completed successfully
begin quitting
Starting silent x1 install from file:///tmp/MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer failed; exit code 7
begin quitting
Starting silent x1 install from file:///MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer failed; exit code 7
begin quitting
Starting silent x1 install from file:///MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer completed successfully
begin quitting
Starting silent x1 install from file:///MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer failed; exit code 7
begin quitting
Starting silent x1 install from file:///MyAppE.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///MyApp.air
App installer completed successfully
begin quitting

Here's the output from .airinstall.log and .airappinstall.log
machine:~ root# cat .airinstall.log
Starting silent x1 install from file:///tmp/MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
stateRunningAppInstaller: appinstaller -runtime "/tmp/Adobe AIR Installer Stand Alone.app/Contents/Frameworks" -silent -withRuntime -url file:///tmp/MyApp.air
App installer failed; exit code 7
begin quitting
machine:~ root# tail .airappinstall.log
Starting silent app install of file:///tmp/MyApp.air
UI SWF load is complete
UI initialized
Unpackaging to /private/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/TemporaryItems/FlashTmp0
unpackaging is complete
application is bound to side-by-side version 1.0
application is bound to this version of the runtime
app id MyApp
pub id ---
failed while unpackaging: [ErrorEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2004" errorID=2004]
starting cleanup of temporary files
application installer exiting

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