Sublime Text 3: "plugin host has exited unexpectedly"

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g_rmz picture g_rmz · Apr 13, 2015 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

I currently use Sublime Text 3. Today this "plugin host has exited unexpectedly" thing started to show up, and after having restarted ST several times, I decided to uninstall it. Now I've reinstalled it, but I can't even install the Package Control because "plugin host has exited unexpectedly" continues to show up.

In the console I've found:

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = 'eb2297e1a458f27d836c04bb0cbaf282' + 'd0e7a3098092775ccb37ca9d6b2e4b7d'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by) 
error: plugin_host has exited unexpectedly, plugin functionality won't be available until Sublime Text has been restarted

I'm using Yosemite, so can someone tell me how to fix this problem?

Answer

Aᴄʜᴇʀᴏɴғᴀɪʟ picture Aᴄʜᴇʀᴏɴғᴀɪʟ · Feb 13, 2016

I believe you have a permissions issue (usually due to copying the app around).

This other StackOverflow question has the solution you're looking for.

In terminal navigate to /path/to/your/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS then change the permissions from whatever they are to 755.
chmod 755 plugin_host
Do the same for the Sublime Text executable as well.
chmod 755 Sublime\ Text

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