macOS Catalina fails to open certain apps with LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810

I'm not sure why, but for some reason adobe creative cloud and Xampp won't open on my mac. When I open them normally through finder or with the dock they bounce up and down once before doing nothing. And when I try to open them through the terminal I get an error
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810

For the case of Xampp this has happened ever since I have installed it and I haven't been able to get it to open ever. However, for the case of creative cloud this is a new occurrence. None of my adobe apps have been affected however. I have tried a clean install and restored from a time machine backup as I was also having an issue in which my mac will not install any .pkg files. However, this did not fix the issue. I've done a bit of digging online but have not yet been able to find any solution or much reference to this error code at all. Does anyone have an idea of what might be going on?

1 Answer

Copied from my answer at Ask Different

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error ... is often an execute permissions error.

You can text the permissions of the overall app from terminal
ls -l path/to/app
but if that looks OK, you may need to test the executable within the app
ls -l path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app

Simple example using Calculator…

$ ls -l /Applications/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 143648 3 Dec 06:43
/Applications/

If you don't see the x execute permission, you can add it with
chmod +x path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app

There's an alternative approach which may work.
On first run, rather than double-clicking, right-click & select Open from the drop menu. This will bypass Gatekeeper's quarantine & allow it to run. It should then remember this for subsequent launches.