Gnucash 2.2.8

[Charles Day]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:37 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Happy December 25th.
>
> I just updated Gnucash from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8 using fink on my Intel Mac
> (Leopard 10.5.5). Gnucash runs, but I want to report my OS X experience.
>
> The update process took three iterations of 'fink update gnucash2' to get
> through. The first time I had 59 dependencies, the second time, 27, the
> third time, 5. The compile was then successful, but I ran into the "Cannot
> find default values." errors described in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/22339 and answered
> in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/22340
>

This could be irrelevant, but with my MacPorts-based build I have to start
GnuCash like:
$ dbus-launch gnucash

That fixes the default values problem for me.


> Subsequent attempts to run /sw/bin/gnucash yield the same startup error,
> even after rebooting the computer, and when I cancel out of that dialog
> (twice) I get:
>
> (gnucash:7749): qof-CRITICAL **: qof_object_shutdown: assertion
> `object_is_initialized == TRUE' failed
>
> I can get Gnucash to run by using init.sh first, but when I exit Gnucash
> after this, the terminal window gets the following errors:
>
> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "ct" unregistered
> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "configmgr" unregistered
> gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "dbio" unregistered
>
> Contrary to the experience hinted at in the earlier thread, my Mac seems
> each time to need init.sh each time.
>
> Fuller System info:
>
> Intel Macbook Pro
> Mac OS X: 10.5.5
> X11: XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple17)
> fink --version
> Package manager version: 0.28.6
> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Wed Dec 24 19:07:58 2008, 10.5, i386
>
> David
>
>
-Charles