2016 Installation Fails to Run

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This problem recently reappeared for us here in our QA lab which allowed us to investigate in more detail and come up with a solution. Our findings and solution are laid out here:

Power PC error message on MacBook Pro

This issue recently appeared for us in our QA lab and we found the following. Here’s the TL;DR: The problem is with a corrupted Launch Services database. The corruption can be fixed by forcing Launch Services to rebuild its database using the following command: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user And some more detail for the curious: In our case it was the LayOut…