Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

[Jim DeLaHunt]

John:

Thank you for the follow-up. Here are some answers to your questions. 
I'll also add them to the bug reports:
(for 2.6.0 ) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721762
>Intel or PPC?

Intel. Hardware = MacBook Core 2 duo.

>For 2.6.0, what are your localization settings?
International settings:
  * Languages: English, Japanese, German.
  * Order for sorted lists: English
  * Formats: Canadian.
  * Input Menu: Several keyboards and input methods selected, 
including Canadian English, Kotoeri (Japanese), Hangul, Character 
Palette, Japanese Kana Palette, Turkish, etc. etc.
  * Keyboard selected: Canadian English.

>  Is there a crash report in /Applications/Utilities/Console?
Not for an invocation of the GnuCash application via Finder.
But when invoking from command line as 
/Applications/Gnucash-2.6.0.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin ,
yes there is a crash report. I'll attach it to the bug report. The 
punch line appears to be:
EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) at libglib-2.0.0.dylib 0x03897593 g_logv + 755


(for 2.4.14) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721765
>For 2.4.14, try deleting 
>Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Tried it. No change to symptoms.
There is a crash log also, from one of the runs -- but not apparently 
from running the GnuCash 2.4.14 app from the Finder.

Thanks for asking!
      --Jim

At 8:04 PM -0800 1/7/14, John Ralls wrote:
>On Jan 7, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <from.gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hello, GnuCash folks:
>>
>>  Many thanks to the developers for this excellent software, and to 
>>all the community members that have fleshed it out into this tool I 
>>rely on so heavily.
>>
>>  I've been using GnuCash 2.4.13 successfully on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I 
>>just tried downloading GnuCash 2.4.14 and 2.6.0. Each of them fails 
>>with the same symptom:
>>
>>  Run GnuCash application (2.4.14 or 2.6.0)
>>  Gnucash application starts.
>>  Tip of the Day dialog appears. Click Close button. Disappears.
>>  Account window appears.
>>  Open any account (I use "Miscellaneous")
>>  Click in Description field at bottom of register to enter a new transaction.
>>
>>  Observed behaviour:
>>  No character appears in the Description field. A system beep 
>>sounds at any key press.
>>
>>  Expected behaviour:
>>  Characters appear in the Description field. No system beep.
>>
>>  Further information:
>>  Running 2.6.0 from command line gets an error message about 
>>"Trace/BPT trap", and app doesn't start at all.
>>  Running 2.6.0 from command line with --debug gets error messages, 
>>but I suspect not relevant ones. I'll file bug reports for the 
>>2.4.14 and the 2.6.0 behaviours, and put more details there. 
>>Likewise, Trace file has error message but I suspect not relevant 
>>ones.
>>  Workaround in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721260 
>>has no effect.
>>  GnuCash 2.4.13 seems to still work as it always did.
>>  GnuCash 2.6.0 about box says "built from rev 38a0d33+ on 2013-12-29".
>>  Same symptoms with any text input field, e.g. changing the Notes 
>>field of an Edit Account dialog.
>>  Opening an empty file from the app and putting a transaction into 
>>a new Account yields the same behaviour.
>>
>>  In other words, both version 2.4.14 and 2.6.0 are completely 
>>impervious to useful work for me on Mac OS X 10.5.8.  I can't 
>>imagine this is true for other Mac users, because I don't see 
>>gnucash-user talk or bug reports about this. Surely if it were 
>>widespread, someone else would have mentioned it before now. So I 
>>must have some unusual problem.
>>
>>  I will file bug reports. But that takes time to get right, and I 
>>wanted to see if anyone could offer some clues right away.
>
>Intel or PPC?
>For 2.4.14, try deleting 
>Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
>
>For 2.6.0, what are your localization settings? Is there a crash 
>report in /Applications/Utilities/Console?
>
>Regards,
>John Ralls

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