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USBDriverKit driver not showing up in settings on iPadOS 18
In iPadOS 17.7 my driver shows up in settings just fine. After recompiling with Xcode 16 and installing my app (containing my driver) on iPadOS 18, the app shows up in settings but the driver-enable button is missing from Settings. When I plug-in my custom USB device, the app cannot detect it and I am left with no way to manually enable the driver, as I did in the previous version of iPadOS.
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Unable to Print or Scan to/from HP Pagewide Pro 477dw MFP
Upgraded my 2 machines to Sequoia 15 and consequently I am unable to print or scan with both machines. A 3rd machine which is not upgraded as yet is unaffected. AirPrint from iPhones is not affected. The printing process executes without error. The printer receives the job but does not actually execute the print. The machine behaves like the job in the queue is completed normally. No error message. Just no physical printout. Happens with all applications. When Scanning - fails to connect to device to enable scanning. error message after some time is attached
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Access Bluetooth in system daemon - Unauthorized
Hello, as the title says, I am trying to access Bluetooth in a system daemon. I am running on MacOS Sonoma 14.5. When initializing Bluetooth, my daemon received Unauthorized state. I have tried to add my daemon in the system settings (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Bluetooth) "Allow applications to access Bluetooth" by adding the program executable path defined by the entry Program of my system daemon as suggested here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/662459. But I am still having the issue. Writing a system daemon with Bluetooth is not my final goal. The bigger picture is the smartcard reader driver with Bluetooth access which as the same issue and the solution is probably related. I do not remember how but my smartcard reader driver use to work with Bluetooth but it does now with the same Unauthorized error. As far as I can see daemon and smartcard drivers does not have support for entitlement. Here are the logs for my sample system daemon: my_daemon [0x6000011b0000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.server.bluetooth.le.att.xpc bluetoothd [0x7f804828e8a0] activating connection: mach=false listener=false peer=true name=com.apple.server.bluetooth.le.att.xpc.peer[76672].0x7f804828e8a0 bluetoothd Received XPC message "CBMsgIdCheckIn" from session "" bluetoothd Received XPC check-in from session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" fAccessLevel 0 fProgrammaticPairing 0 fLimitedForMediaAccess 0 bluetoothd Access level is less than kXPCAccessLevelSystem for session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67". Restricted state operation not allowed bluetoothd Sending 'session attached' event for session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" bluetoothd Attached session for "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" with session: 0x7f804802d1b0, session handle: 0xef8d0000 bluetoothd Registering peripheral session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" with backgrounding: off, persistence: off (CBSR) restoreID: (null) bluetoothd Error getting Application State for <private>: <private>, 3 bluetoothd Error getting Application State for <private>: <private>, 3 bluetoothd Session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" tccRequired : 1 bluetoothd ReadyForTCC. TCC required:1 fLimitedForMediaAccess:0 fDeviceAccessForMediaExtension:0 bluetoothd Session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" : needsRestrictedStateOperation = 0, overrideRestrictedState = 0 , denylistMode = 0, receivesControllerBTClockEvents=0 my_daemon Received CBMsgIdReadyForTCC my_daemon Running performTccCheck CBManager tccAvail 1, tccRequired 1 my_daemon TCC required my_daemon [0x6000011b8000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd my_daemon [0x6000011b8000] failed to do a bootstrap look-up: xpc_error=[3: No such process] my_daemon [0x6000011b8000] invalidated after a failed init my_daemon send_message_with_reply(): user tccd unavailable, sending 0x600000ab4000 to system tccd my_daemon [0x6000011b4000] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd.system tccd [0x7fd4d1f7ed80] activating connection: mach=false listener=false peer=true name=com.apple.tccd.system.peer[76672].0x7fd4d1f7ed80 tccd REQUEST: tccd_uid=0, sender_pid=76672, sender_uid=0, sender_auid=-1, function=TCCAccessRequest, msgID=76672.1 tccd AUTHREQ_CTX: msgID=76672.1, function=<private>, service=kTCCServiceBluetoothAlways, preflight=no, query=1, client_dict=(null), daemon_dict=<private> tccd AUTHREQ_ATTRIBUTION: msgID=76672.1, attribution={requesting={TCCDProcess: identifier=my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937, pid=76672, auid=0, euid=0, binary_path=/Users/olivier/daemon/my_daemon}, }, tccd AUTHREQ_SUBJECT: msgID=76672.1, subject=/Users/olivier/daemon/my_daemon, tccd Refusing TCCAccessRequest for service kTCCServiceBluetoothAlways from client Sub:{/Users/olivier/daemon/my_daemon}Resp:{TCCDProcess: identifier=my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937, pid=76672, auid=0, euid=0, binary_path=/Users/olivier/daemon/my_daemon} in background session tccd AUTHREQ_RESULT: msgID=76672.1, authValue=0, authReason=5, authVersion=1, error=(null), tccd REPLY: (0) function=TCCAccessRequest, msgID=76672.1 my_daemon [0x6000011b4000] invalidated after the last release of the connection object bluetoothd Received XPC message "CBMsgIdTCCDone" from session "my_daemon-5555494498236e3b5e2e395b93c13af176769937-peripheral-76672-67" tccd [0x7fd4d1f7ed80] invalidated after getting a no-senders notification - client is gone bluetoothd [0x7f80482820f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd.system tccd [0x7fd4d32585f0] activating connection: mach=false listener=false peer=true name=com.apple.tccd.system.peer[169].0x7fd4d32585f0 tccd REQUEST: tccd_uid=0, sender_pid=169, sender_uid=0, sender_auid=-1, function=TCCAccessRequest, msgID=169.48 tccd [0x7fd4d313d880] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd tccd [0x7fd4d313d880] failed to do a bootstrap look-up: xpc_error=[3: No such process] bluetoothd [0x7f80482820f0] invalidated after the last release of the connection object bluetoothd Bluetooth user permission alwaysAuth: denied tccd [0x7fd4d313d880] invalidated after a failed init tccd FORWARD: to=com.apple.tccd/0, request: { require_purpose=<xpc_null> service="kTCCServiceBluetoothAlways" function="TCCAccessRequest" preflight=true target_token={pid:76672, auid:-1, euid:0} TCCD_MSG_ID="169.48" background_session=false } tccd REPLY: from=com.apple.tccd, reply: { XPCErrorDescription="Connection invalid" } tccd forwardMessage error: Connection invalid. tccd [0x7fd4d3152bf0] activating connection: mach=false listener=false peer=true name=com.apple.tccd.system.peer[169].0x7fd4d3152bf0 bluetoothd [0x7f80482820f0] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd.system tccd REQUEST: tccd_uid=0, sender_pid=169, sender_uid=0, sender_auid=-1, function=TCCAccessRequest, msgID=169.49 tccd [0x7fd4d32585f0] invalidated after getting a no-senders notification - client is gone tccd [0x7fd4d1f4c810] activating connection: mach=true listener=false peer=false name=com.apple.tccd tccd [0x7fd4d1f4c810] failed to do a bootstrap look-up: xpc_error=[3: No such process] tccd [0x7fd4d1f4c810] invalidated after a failed init tccd FORWARD: to=com.apple.tccd/0, request: { require_purpose=<xpc_null> service="kTCCServiceBluetoothAlways" function="TCCAccessRequest" preflight=true target_token={pid:76672, auid:-1, euid:0} TCCD_MSG_ID="169.49" background_session=false } tccd REPLY: from=com.apple.tccd, reply: { XPCErrorDescription="Connection invalid" } tccd forwardMessage error: Connection invalid.
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