Update:
A permanent solution has been written up by Nicholas Cancelliere at ozmox.com, check it out!
After freshly installing the Palm Pre SDK on my Mac today, I was greeted with the following warning:
In order to install or debug applications in the Palm Emulator, the novacom service must be running on your desktop.
Please verify that you have the latest Palm SDK installed correctly.
Can’t say I was terribly impressed. I ended up ignoring this message, only to find out that when I tried to install the Hello World application on the emulator, I hit a bit of a snag:
palm-install: Connection refused
Turns out there’s a quick fix for this. You just have to start novacom from the command line.
sudo /opt/nova/bin/novacomd
Rerun the install script again and bam! We’ve got a working Hello World app.




