Quartz version of GnuCash and dbus

[John Ralls]

On May 18, 2011, at 9:17 PM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On May 18, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
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>> On May 18, 2011, at 8:45 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>>> The reason for the dbus dance is to provide a drag-and-drop app bundle rather than an installer. I'm pretty sure that using launchd requires installing dbus somewhere permanent and setting up a launch daemon for it -- which would require using an Installer bundle (a .mpkg) instead.
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>> I don't think that's true.  You can still install it with drag and drop.  You can put the dbus binary anywhere and simply put a symlink to the plist in the LaunchAgents directory as my script changes do.  Give it a try and I think you'll see that it works.  If not I'll try to fix it so it does.  You might have to change the plist itself to point to the dbus server, or perhaps put a symlink to the server somewhere else.  So long as the plist points to it, things should work.
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>>> FWIW, direct use of dbus is now discouraged: One is supposed to use gdbus instead, and I've had to hold back the GConf version because recent releases do so and there's a race condition in gdbus that prevents it from connecting on OSX -- or there was in February when I last looked at it. That aside, though, gdbus also provides a hook for a platform-specific dbus replacement. I'd like to do one for OSX using NSUserDefaults and NSNotifications, which would eliminate the need for a dbus daemon entirely. Finding time to do that is a bit of a rub, though.
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>> Fine, but in the meantime, I think this would be an improvement.
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> OK, I'll try it out tomorrow.

But no joy. Here's the error from Console:

> 5/19/11 12:17:26 PM	[0x0-0xc69c69].org.gnucash.Gnucash[32588]	)Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/history/maxfiles: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: /Users/john/Library/Gnucash-2.4/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not compiled in.

The reason it worked with your MacPorts X11 dbus and fails with the gtk-osx dbus is evident from the last line, a mis-feature of dbus I had forgotten about.

Regards,
John Ralls