Issues with 3.0 when launching on 4S / 5 simulator

[nemesis]

I am getting different outcomes when launching an .app with different devicetypeids.

$ ios-sim launch myapp.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-6, 8.1" # => everything ok
$ ios-sim launch myapp.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-5s, 8.1" # => everything ok
$ ios-sim launch myapp.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-4s, 8.1"
Session could not be started: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=3 "Unable to run app in Simulator" UserInfo=0x7f91f250c900 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7f91f24459d0 "Failed to lookup the process ID of com.company.myapp after successful launch.  Perhaps it crashed after launch.", NSLocalizedFailureReason=An error was encountered while running (Domain = NSPOSIXErrorDomain, Code = 3), NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to run app in Simulator}

Is there anyone else having troubles with this?

[shazron]

I just created a Simulator executable and launched it in the 4s using the same args:
ios-sim launch myapp.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-4s, 8.1

Not sure what's going on -- I know it's cliché but can you retry after restarting your computer? (just to rule things out)

[nemesis]

@shazron Thanks for suggesting this, but a restart did not help.

Now I am getting another error:

Session could not be started: Error Domain=com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError Code=146 "Unable to run app in Simulator" 
UserInfo=0x7fdc38410170 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7fdc3854f3a0 "Exception encountered connecting to CoreSimulatorBridge: connection went invalid while waiting for a reply", NSLocalizedFailureReason=An error was encountered while running
(Domain = com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimError, Code = 146), NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to run app in Simulator}

Still works with devicetypeid set for an iPhone 6 though.

[nemesis]

Update: The same output results from running on com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-5, 8.1.

[kdhamric]

I am seeing the same error with the following devices:
iPhone-4s, 8.1
iPad-Retina, 8.1
iPhone-5, 8.1
iPad-2, 8.1

These worked fine:
iPhone 5s, 8.1
iPad Air, 8.1
iPhone-6, 8.1
iPhone-6-Plus, 8.1

This is on OSX 10.9.4 running under VMFusion with XCode 6.1. In my instance, it appears that ios-sim is running fine on the simulators that are based on the 64bit processors, but not the older ones.

Thanks
Ken

[shazron]

Thanks @kdhamric that's an important clue.

[kdhamric]

We use ios-sim at http://crossbrowsertesting.com. I can set you up with a
free account that will allow you to access this configuration that is
having trouble launching if that will help you in determining the issue.
Just email me at info at crossbrowsertesting.com and we will set it up.

Appreciate your tool!

Ken Hamric

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Thanks @kdhamric https://github.com/kdhamric that's an important clue.

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[shazron]

Thanks @kdhamric I'll take you up on it when I need to do more testing.

Perhaps the .app does not have a 32-bit slice in it for those older devices? I'm using Apache Cordova to test, and the apps do have 32-bit slices (and 64-bit as well, in a fat binary) and launch in the devices where you are encountering errors.

Here's how to repro my results:

npm install -g cordova
cd ~/Desktop
cordova create SimTest sim.test SimTest
cd SimTest
cordova platform add ios
cordova build --emulator
ios-sim launch platforms/ios/build/emulator/SimTest.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-4s, 8.1"

[kdhamric]

Thanks - I believe you are correct. I replicated your steps with Apache Cordova and was able to launch it fine on the iPhone-4s. Then tried to launch ios-sim-safari-launcher (which is the app I am having trouble launching), and it failed. This was my launch command:
ios-sim launch /Users/you/tools/ios-sim-safari-launcher/IOSSimulatorSafariLauncher.app --devicetypeid "com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDeviceType.iPhone-4s, 8.1" --exit --args http://google.com
Here is a short video showing both launches: http://app.crossbrowsertesting.com/public/i209606fff4e5273/livetests/2399565/videos/z3c1094082cd6bc4ddc7 (press actual size button b4 viewing)

I then downloaded the latest https://github.com/rockitbaby/IOSSimulatorSafariLauncher and recompiled it on the latest xcode (may have changed the targeting for ios7... did not write down the exact steps) and used the app it created - I am now able to launch on iPhone-4s. It looks like the included ios-sim-safari-launcher needs to be recompiled from what I am seeing.