I am having trouble running any third party applications that are not created with pure apple native UI. Example, Google Crome, Firefox and Microsoft Word.
When I try launch one of the applications in question they continually bounce up and down in the Dock without ever launching. I have checked all the file permissions and the preferences to allow apps that are not downloaded from the app store to run, they are all correct.
I have also tried rolling back using time machine to a much older install and reinstalling everything, the applications work for a short time before breaking again.
I have also tried reinstalling all the applications, in addition I reinstalled Java and any other runtime tools that may be causing the problem with no luck. I have also tried the basic tricks like restarting the OS.
It may also be worth noting that when this problem first started happening some of my preferences reverted back to default, example natural scrolling turned back on.
I have looked in the system.log and see the following error repeated over and over again every few seconds, not sure if it is related, could indicate some ownership issues.
Nov 17 09:19:41 azula com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master[1434]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Nov 17 09:19:41 azula com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master): Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 9 seconds.
and
Nov 17 09:33:49 azula.staff sharingd[238]: 09:33:49.984 : Starting Handoff advertising
Nov 17 09:33:51 azula.staff sharingd[238]: 09:33:51.984 : Stopping Handoff advertising
I also see this log message when launching Firefox, I don't see any messages when launching other problem applications
Nov 17 09:32:49 azula kernel[0]: firefox (map: 0xffffff8041e393c0) triggered DYLD shared region unnest for map: 0xffffff8041e393c0, region 0x7fff8d800000->0x7fff8da00000. While not abnormal for debuggers, this increases system memory footprint until the target exits.
I am running Yosemite 10.10 (14A389) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)
Best Answer
While the three errors you showed are problems, none of them have to do with your current issue. The first one is due to a permissions error on incoming mail. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3184945?tstart=0 to fix. The second is just for handoff with iOS devices. It is not something to worry about. The third is an error on an old version of firefox. An update should fix it. It is described more in depth at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804010
As for the problem itself, I would recommend going into Disk Utility and running a permissions repair. It sounds a lot like the apps got quarantined even though you have it set to allow all applications.