Error installing gnucash2.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Intel)

[Tom Carroll]

On Sunday, January 11, 2009, at 05:09PM, "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Tom Carroll <cgbosntom at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I just went through the four hour process to install gnuCash 2.2.8 on Mac
>> OS X 10.5.6 using the MacPorts Quartz install as found at
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail
>>
>> However, it did not create the Application link, so I navigated to
>> /opt/local/bin and double-clicked gnucash and I get the following error:
>>
>
>Sounds like it was built OK. I believe you can ignore the binreloc message.
>I've never tried launching it through the finder though. Your problem is
>related to dbus. Let's see if GnuCash works via the command line. Try
>opening a terminal and enter the following command:
>dbus-launch gnucash
>
>-Charles

Here are my results:

$ dbus-launch gnucash
Failed to start message bus: Check-in failed: Permission denied

EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon

>
>> /opt/local/bin/gnucash ; exit;
>> $ /opt/local/bin/gnucash ; exit;
>> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
>> configure time.
>>
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>>
>> Then a dialog window opens up that reads:
>>
>> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
>> gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
>>
>> Nothing happens when I click the "details" button or the "OK" button.
>>
>> The above error dialog opens over the top of the gnucash-bin window that
>> provides another error.
>>
>> The configuration data used to specify default values for GnuCash cannot be
>> found in the default system locations. Without this data GnuCash will still
>> operate properly but it may require some extra time to setup. Do you wish to
>> setup the configuration data?
>>
>> I can click on the "Quit", "Skip" or "Setup" buttons.
>>
>> If I click on Setup it brings me to several other dialogs that I can accept
>> the defaults as presented.  At this time it appars GnuCash starts with a
>> blank screen.
>>
>> I have not gone any further in trying the program until I can remedy the
>> above errors.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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