UIAutomation : Failed to authorize rights with status: -60007

Question

So I am running UIAutomation on command line with

$ instruments -t /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Instruments/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate 
<path-to-your-app>/<appname>.app/ -e UIASCRIPT <path-to-your-js-test-file> -e 
UIARESULTSPATH <path-to-results-folder>

This works fine and the simulator opens up, and the app runs, but gets stuck with this error.

Failed to authorize rights (0x2) with status: -60007

I believe it has something to do with the permissions.

How do I go about this ?

Does this help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9476131/is-there-a-way-to-remove-the-authorization-prompt-from-command-line-instances-of — S.P., Jul 06 '12 at 21:50
Have you ever solved this issue? Unfortunately I am currently running into the same one... — Alexander, Jul 10 '12 at 11:43
ah okay, do you have another solution than the one I mentioned in this question: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11416025/925622 — Alexander, Jul 10 '12 at 17:09
@Alexander I fixed it by making changes with `sudo visudo` and changing privilages for instruments. But I reverted and took your solution, its BETTER. Please add the answer to this question for other folks :) Thanks ! — Legolas, Jul 10 '12 at 17:59

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

That's the answer I posted at Instruments via command line - jenkins

And here is even a blog post about Xcode command line authorization prompt error

I will explain it again here:

What I did was the following:

Mark jenkins user as admin (unfortunately it seems that there is no other way atm)
Go to /etc/authorization
search for key system.privilige.taskport

change value of allow-root to true

<key>system.privilege.taskport</key>
<dict>
    <key>allow-root</key>
    <false/> // change to -> <true>
    <key>class</key>
    <string>user</string>
    <key>comment</key>
    <string>Used by task_for_pid(...).
    ...
</dict>

Now I am being able to use jenkins to run my UIAutomation-Tests via Command Line Script

EDIT

To make jenkins recognize a successfull build, I have not a perfect solution but the following workaround:

...
echo "Run instruments simulator"

instruments -t "$ORDER_AUTOMATION_TEST_TEMPLATE_PATH" "$FILE_DEBUG_APP" -e UIASCRIPT "$ORDER_AUTOMATION_TESTSCRIPT_PATH" -e UIARESULTSPATH "$DIRECTORY_INSTRUMENTS_RESULT"

returnCode=0

if test -a "Run 1/Assertion failed.png"; then
echo "failed"
returnCode=1
else
echo "passed"
returnCode=0
fi

rm -fR "Run 1"

rm -fR "instrumentscli0.trace"

echo "Removing app dir"

echo "$FILE_APPLICATIONS"

rm -fR "$FILE_APPLICATIONS"

echo $returnCode

exit $returnCode

EDIT 2 Better way to check if automation test did run successfully:

# cleanup the tracefiles produced from instruments
rm -rf *.trace

##kill simulator afterwards
killall "iPhone Simulator"

##check if failures occured
# fail script if any failures have been generated
if [ `grep "<string>Error</string>" "$WORKSPACE/Automation Results/Run 1/Automation Results.plist" | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; then
    echo 'Build Failed'
    exit -1
else
    echo 'Build Passed'
    exit 0
fi

Are you using this as a post build step ? Does Jenkins recognize a successful automation test ? — Legolas, Jul 10 '12 at 20:25
it's not as easy as it seams to make the jenkins recognize a successfull automation run. I did not find a perfect solution, but I have a workaround for this - see my edit — Alexander, Jul 10 '12 at 20:58
I've added a better way to check whether a run was successful or not — Alexander, Nov 26 '12 at 12:30
You sir are a life saver. This got my Adobe Air tests to run — Usman Ismail, Apr 23 '13 at 22:03
Mavericks: security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow — stefreak, May 12 '14 at 12:39
comment by @stefreak actually works (and I've tried *lots* of other suggestions). Please make it an answer. — Steven Kramer, Oct 21 '14 at 06:02

stefreak · Answer 2 · 2014-11-18T11:13:18.243

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This can help on Mavericks and Yosemite: (based on Alexander's answer)

$ security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow

edited Nov 18 '14 at 11:13

answered Oct 21 '14 at 11:26

stefreak

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