"App Store cannot be opened because of a problem"

[Whackintosh]

How nice. Bye bye software updates. Could anyone make any sense out of this or offer me any advice on how to fix this problem? Problem began after repairing disk permissions.

Pasting in part of the details of what I'm getting:








Process: App Store [310]
Path: /Applications/App Store.app/Contents/MacOS/App Store
Identifier: com.apple.appstore
Version: 1.2.2 (129.13)
Build Info: Firenze-129013000000000~4
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [147]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2013-04-17 23:24:32.230 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.2 (12C60)
Report Version: 10

Interval Since Last Report: 983 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 7
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 7
Anonymous UUID: 7443B434-2B64-D388-1DF1-0D19351BCC8B

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_CKUpToDate
Referenced from: /Applications/App Store.app/Contents/MacOS/App Store
Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/CommerceKit
in /Applications/App Store.app/Contents/MacOS/App Store

 

[Bear]

It appears that you are running 10.8.2. My recommendation is to manually download the 10.8.3 Combo Update and install it.

The Combo updater will sometimes fix issues that a point (like 10.8.2 to 10.8.3) update won't fix. And will also sometimes fix something that got broken by something else.

As to what caused it.. are you running any Mac "cleaning" software or Mackeeper? That would be the most likely culprit.

 

[Whackintosh]

Thanks. Downloading the update now. Fingers crossed!

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Haven't run any cleaning software, btw, just repaired disk permissions.

 

[Whackintosh]

SUCCESS! Thanks!