Unable to start GnuCash 2.6 on Mac OS -X Mavericks

[Subramanian Venkateswaran]

Dear John,

Yes you are right. Your fix works fine. Thank you very much for this useful
tip.

Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year.

Regards,
Subramanian V.
(www.lifebytes.in)


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Vishak Nathan <vjn123_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks Subramanian & John . The fix worked fine and GnuCash 2.6 started.
> -Vishak
>
>
>   On Wednesday, January 1, 2014 11:14 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2014, at 7:08 AM, Subramanian Venkateswaran <
> subramanian.venkateswaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I faced the same issue. The temporary workaround for this will be :
> >
> > Step 1 : Go to terminal
> >
> > Step 2 : Go to the folder where you have GnuCash.app file
> >
> > Step 3: Enter the following in the command prompt in terminal LC_ALL=C
> > Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> >
> > The above steps worked for me.
>
> That's a bit painful. A better work-around is to find a locale that
> matches the
> language you want to use and is supported by the C library. en_GB is a
> good choice
> for English speakers who prefer to see "colour" instead of "color" and so
> on.
>
> Once you've picked your locale, enter the following at a Terminal prompt:
>   defaults write -app Gnucash AppleLocale en_GB
> substituting whatever locale you've selected for en_GB. Then you'll be
> able to
> use GnuCash as usual.
>
> For reference this is bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721260
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Ralls
>
>
>
>