Gnucash binary 2.2.9.3 for PPC crashes

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Dec 28 11:08:19 EST 2009


On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Santiago Fernandez wrote:

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> On Dec 28, 2009, at 12:17 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> In either case, try renaming Gnucash.app to something else and then rename it back. The idea is to force launchd to reload the Info.plist into its cache. Do this instead of copying Gnucash.app fresh from the dmg and relaunch.
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> This works. I renamed it to myGnucash.app and I tried to run it but it failed with the -psn_foo message. Then I changed the name back to Gnucash.app and it works fine now.
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> I've seen in Activity Monitor that the first time I run Gnucash.app the process name changes from Gnucash to Gnucash-bin soon after typing the admin password. Maybe this "confuses" launchd? After having fixed the problem the process name is Gnucash at any time.

Now it stays fixed? Curioser and curioser.

The process name change probably did reflect whatever was corrupting launchd's cache. 

Regards,
John Ralls



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