Installer fails with error -10810

[j-mikhail]

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I have an iMac9,1 running your patched updates through Mojave 10.14.6. So far, so good. However, when I try to run the Mojave updater, which is listed as supporting this machine, it always fails with the following error:

Preparing to Launch Installer... LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /private/tmp/Install macOS Catalina.app.

Full log below:

Mounting BaseSystem.dmg...

/dev/disk1          	GUID_partition_scheme          	
/dev/disk1s1        	Apple_HFS                      	/private/tmp/basesystem

Patching BaseSystem.dmg...

Storing BaseSystem.dmg...

"disk1" ejected.
Preparing imaging engine…
Reading Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…
   (CRC32 $C0E97CDD: Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0))
Reading GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1)…
   (CRC32 $ED624487: GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1))
Reading GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2)…
   (CRC32 $4EB14902: GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2))
Reading  (Apple_Free : 3)…
   (CRC32 $00000000:  (Apple_Free : 3))
Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 4)…
   (CRC32 $A645CC56: disk image (Apple_HFS : 4))
Reading  (Apple_Free : 5)…
   (CRC32 $00000000:  (Apple_Free : 5))
Reading GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 6)…
   (CRC32 $4EB14902: GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 6))
Reading GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7)…
   (CRC32 $7BE51C9E: GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7))
Adding resources…
Elapsed Time: 48.499s
File size: 714237752 bytes, Checksum: CRC32 $16B439CF
Sectors processed: 4193056, 3594452 compressed
Speed: 36.2Mbytes/sec
Savings: 66.7%
created: /private/tmp/BaseSystem.dmg

Copying SharedSupport to App...

Copying Patched BaseSystem.dmg...

Mounting InstallESD.dmg...

/dev/disk1          	GUID_partition_scheme          	
/dev/disk1s1        	EFI                            	
/dev/disk1s2        	Apple_HFS                      	/private/tmp/installesd

Patching and Copying InstallESD.dmg...

"disk1" ejected.
Preparing imaging engine…
Reading Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…
   (CRC32 $7AD4FF9D: Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0))
Reading GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1)…
   (CRC32 $9DAAAFE9: GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1))
Reading GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2)…
   (CRC32 $4209AADA: GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2))
Reading  (Apple_Free : 3)…
   (CRC32 $00000000:  (Apple_Free : 3))
Reading EFI System Partition (C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B : 4)…
   (CRC32 $B54B659C: EFI System Partition (C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B : 4))
Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 5)…
   (CRC32 $553458B3: disk image (Apple_HFS : 5))
Reading  (Apple_Free : 6)…
   (CRC32 $00000000:  (Apple_Free : 6))
Reading GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 7)…
   (CRC32 $4209AADA: GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 7))
Reading GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 8)…
   (CRC32 $293F9F98: GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 8))
Adding resources…
Elapsed Time:  5m 56.179s
File size: 7739116383 bytes, Checksum: CRC32 $4B2F86DF
Sectors processed: 16540040, 15579284 compressed
Speed: 21.4Mbytes/sec
Savings: 8.6%
created: /private/tmp/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg

Preparing to Launch Installer...

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /private/tmp/Install macOS Catalina.app.