Gnucash binary 2.2.9.3 for PPC crashes

[John Ralls]

On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Santiago Fernandez wrote:

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> On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:30 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Santiago Fernandez wrote:
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>>> Hi John,
>>> 
>>> I am still unable to get gnucash running a second time. The console log shows the same message as before:
>>> 
>>> 12/18/09 5:47:56 PM [0x0-0x42042].org.gnucash.Gnucash[356] * 17:47:55  WARN <gnc.bin> Error parsing command line arguments: [Unknown option -psn_0_270402]; try `gnucash --help` for available options.
>>> 12/18/09 5:47:56 PM com.apple.launchd[65] ([0x0-0x42042].org.gnucash.Gnucash[356]) Exited with exit code: 1
>>> 
>>> Any clue?
>>> 
>>> I see in the readme file that you've included other fixes in the bundle too. That's nice.
>>> Thank you very much,
>>> Santi
>> 
>> What happens if you open Terminal.app and issue the following?
>> /Path/to/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
>> (Obviously, replace /Path/to with wherever you dragged Gnucash.app)
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> Gnucash starts just fine.
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>> Is the unknown option the same every time?
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> It isn't. In my tests the number after "-psn_0_" increases.
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>> What is the path to Gnucash.app?
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> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash

OK, a bit of googling turns up what it is (it's the process number), but the Gnucash shell script is supposed to remove it.

Try this: Open /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash in TextEdit.app and add the line
echo ARGS $*
near the top of the file, save, and launch Gnucash.app from Finder.
The console log entry will now have a line ARGS followed by the arguments (including the -psn_0_...) passed in by launchd. I'm hoping that the problem is that -psn_0_... isn't the first one and that's causing the launcher script to not filter it out.

Regards,
John Ralls