Permission issue on macOS amd64

[JeromeNelsonC]

I happened to install lux on a macbook air 2020
1,1 Ghz Core i5 Quad Core
8GB RAM
Sequoia 15.6.1

I get this in the begging:

And when type in the password it just turns off.

So I opened lux via terminal and the exact same thing happened but at least i got stdout:

./Lux
2025-10-19 14:55:28.186 Lux[3885:147213] Running with merged UI and platform thread. Experimental.
flutter: dashboard url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/?client_version=1.39.1&token=e5210e06-4cda-4a45-86dd-a1f68c529708&theme=light
flutter: 40:510: execution error: chown: /Applications/Lux.app/Contents/Frameworks/App.framework/Resources/flutter_assets/assets/bin/lux_core: Operation not permitted
flutter: (1)
flutter:

[igoogolx]

Try to elevate lux_core manually. The $path is /Applications/Lux.app/Contents/Frameworks/App.framework/Resources/flutter_assets/assets/bin/lux_core.

sudo chown root:wheel $path&&sudo chmod 770 $path&&sudo chmod +sx $path

[igoogolx]

See more info.

[JeromeNelsonC]

Thank you! It worked! But can you make this automatic in future versions? I remember seeing this issue in the past on someone else's intel Mac too ( #36 ).

[igoogolx]

Not easy to resolve it now because I don't own an Intel mac and can't reproduce it on my Arm mac.
But I think we can add an elevation guide for users in future versions when the elevation service has an error.