I see the same message infrequently -- even when things run successfully.
You may be having troubles running instruments from command line because of changes to command line utilities for XCode 6.
Check out UIAutomation test invocation from the command line with Xcode 6
adding the -w flag made things work again for me. i.e.
-w "Resizable iPad (8.0 Simulator)"
Also, make sure you're passing the -w before the path to the app file:
instruments -t "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.xrplugin/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate" -w "iPad Air (8.0 Simulator)" "/path/to/My.app" -e UIASCRIPT "scriptola.js"
Here's a list of devices:
- Resizable iPad (8.0 Simulator)
- Resizable iPhone (8.0 Simulator)
- iPad 2 (7.1 Simulator)
- iPad 2 (8.0 Simulator)
- iPad Air (7.1 Simulator)
- iPad Air (8.0 Simulator)
- iPad Retina (7.1 Simulator)
- iPad Retina (8.0 Simulator)
- iPhone 4s (7.1 Simulator)
- iPhone 4s (8.0 Simulator)
- iPhone 5 (7.1 Simulator)
- iPhone 5 (8.0 Simulator)
- iPhone 5s (7.1 Simulator)
- iPhone 5s (8.0 Simulator)
- iPhone 6 (8.0 Simulator)
- iPhone 6 Plus (8.0 Simulator)