Gnucash will not start on Mac

Steven Smith sos at alum.mit.edu
Sat May 17 21:44:10 EDT 2008


David, you got it in one. I (of course) figured this out after writing 
the list, not before. Obvious now...
Starting with X11 works great.

David Reiser, thanks for a prompt reply.

Steve

David T. wrote:
> WRT the original problem: Steven, are you executing the gnucash command from an
> X11 window, or just a regular terminal window? It needs to be X11. [BTW, that
> binreloc message always comes up for me, so that's trivial]
>
> What happens if you do 'gnucash --nofile'? Sometimes gnucash hangs on a new Mac
> install with the automatic New File druid...
>
> David
>
> --- David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> On May 17, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Steven Smith wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm running OSX 10.4.11. I built with Fink from source per  
>>> instructions
>>> on the web. Here's what happens starting from a terminal window:
>>>
>>> ~ sos$ gnucash
>>> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
>>> configure time.
>>>
>>> and that's all, no further response. I tried gnucash --debug but  
>>> nothing
>>> different happens, I do not have a /tmp/gnucash.trace file.
>>>
>>> I'm at a loss, any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>       
>> Unless you really need to build the trunk source, 'fink install  
>> gnucash2' will get you gnucash 2.2.5.
>> You do need to have the unstable/main and unstable/crypto trees  
>> enabled in fink.conf in order to see/get gnucash2.
>> Gnucash is still launched with 'gnucash' even though the fink package  
>> name is gnucash2.
>>
>> Dave
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>> David Reiser
>> dbreiser at earthlink.net
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