Installing PlasticSCM on OS X Yosemite failing with 'abnormal error code: 129'

Question

When executing PlasticSCM-5.4.16.628-osx-installer.app on OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite), the password is requested and entered, nothing else appears on the screen.

Checking the console reveals Service exited with abnormal code: 129

The system has PlasticSCM version 5.0.44.581 - Manaos, originally installed under OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), prior to the Yosemite upgrade. Plastic Manaos is running as expected, under Yosemite after upgrading X11 to XQuartz 2.7.7.

The full log entries for the failed installer execution:

12/9/14 6:41:35.782 PM SecurityAgent[4423]: Failed to initialize IconCache named: com.apple.iconservices with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (connection to service named com.apple.iconservices) UserInfo=0x7ffcb3da95c0 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.iconservices}  
12/9/14 6:41:35.783 PM SecurityAgent[4423]: Error returned from iconservicesagent: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (connection to service named com.apple.iconservices) UserInfo=0x7ffcb3dacc00 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.iconservices}  
12/9/14 6:41:42.822 PM SecurityAgent[4423]: Error returned from iconservicesagent: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." (connection to service named com.apple.iconservices) UserInfo=0x7ffcb3c99b50 {NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.iconservices}  
12/9/14 6:41:43.043 PM authexec[4427]: executing /Users/glen/Downloads/PlasticSCM-5.4.16.628-osx-installer.app/Contents/MacOS/osx-intel  
12/9/14 6:41:43.047 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.bitrock.appinstaller.194004[4414]) Service exited with abnormal code: 129  

I've googled a few phrases from the above, but still need a clue as to how to begin troubleshooting.

Any further ideas are much appreciated.

Answer 1

The problem is that the installer, osx-intel is not flagged as executable. Also sudo privileges are required.

From terminal, same directory as installer:

   $ chmod +x ./PlasticSCM-5.4.16.633-osx-installer.app/Contents/MacOS/osx-intel

   $ sudo ./PlasticSCM-5.4.16.633-osx-installer.app/Contents/MacOS/osx-intel

Success!