On Jun 1, 2020, at 15:48, Greg Earle wrote:
> On 29 May 2020, at 8:56, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> So I'm not sure how the `-sp` flags got into your launchd plist again when
>> they're not supported anymore. Maybe Apple made a mistake in the security
>> update. If so, I'd expect them to reissue it. If they do, the macOS build
>> number should change. I'm running Mojave 10.14.6 build 18G5033. How about
>> you? If you're running less than that, run Software Update again, or try
>> downloading the security update from Apple's web site.
>>
>> Alternately, is it possible that you edited the plist file yourself to add
>> the -sp flags? MacPorts used to have instructions in the notes of the gdb
>> port telling users to add the -p flag to the existing -s flag since this was
>> required for gdb to work in OS X 10.10. We removed those instructions some
>> years ago since they were no longer helpful in OS X 10.11 and later but
>> maybe you found and followed similar instructions elsewhere on the Internet,
>> or you ran some installer or script that edited it for you. On my Mojave
>> system, the plist hasn't been modified since 2018-08-21, but you showed that
>> on your system it was modified on 2020-04-16. Of course, editing that file
>> manually would require disabling System Integrity Protection. Have you
>> disabled SIP? If so, consider reenabling it to protect your system from
>> unwanted modifications.
>
> Ryan et al.,
>
> Apologies for the late update. I discovered after I sent my last e-mail to
> the list that on April 16th I did a "port upgrade outdated" and it updated
> several things including (g)gdb. 24 minutes later, the .plist file was
> edited. I'm assuming that I must have done it and for the very reason you
> describe - I found old MacPorts list postings saying it was a workaround for
> gdb not being codesigned.
>
> I didn't reboot the system after changing the .plist or I would have found
> this problem back then, and not assumed it was due to some change made by
> Apple with Security Update 2020-003 which is the first time I've rebooted the
> system since April 16th.
>
> With egg on face,
>
> - Greg
Thanks for letting us know! Glad we were able to figure out what happened. \r
