[GNC-dev] gnucash 3.906-1 fails to launch on clicked icon

[Jeff Earickson]

Releases 3.905-1 and previous 3.9x releases

OS: MacOS 10.15.5 (Catalina) MacBook Pro and Mac Mini hardwares

System log says (/var/log/system.log):

*Jun 21 17:15:55 rongovia com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]
(com.apple.xpc.launchd.oneshot.0x10000001.Gnucash[602]): Service exited
with abnormal code: 1*


(could not find other references to Gnucash in any other syslogs)

The problem: When you click on the application icon to launch Gnucash, you
get the "verifying Gnucash" scrollbar, then -- nothing.  Checking the
syslogs, you see the message above.  This is true when the program is
installed in /Applications, or clicked on directly from the mounted volume
from the dmg.

However, the program will start up correctly if you open a terminal window
and launch it via command-line, ie

cd /Applications/GnucashGnucash.app/Contents/MacOS
./Gnucash

I get:

*rongovia:MacOS jaearick$ ./Gnucash*

*Application Path
/Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/./Gnucash*


*(process:878): gnc.gui-**WARNING** **: **17:30:10.516**:
[mac_set_languages()] Language list: en:en_US:C*


and the splash screen and everything else appears normally.


I googled about this topic, and it has appeared in the past, but I did not
find an actual fix to the problem.


FYI, before this turns into a real 4.0 release.


-- 
--- Jeff Earickson