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

Tom Carroll cgbosntom at mac.com
Mon Jan 12 10:50:55 EST 2009


Mine says:

$ port installed dbus
The following ports are currently installed:
  dbus @1.2.12_1 (active)



On 1/11/09 9:07 PM, "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Tom Carroll <cgbosntom at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
> 
> Hmm. What does this command show?
> port installed dbus
> 
> Mine says:
> $ port installed dbus
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   dbus @1.2.4_2+no_x11 (active)
> 
> -Charles
> 
>> 
>>> >
>>>> >> /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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>>> >
>> 
> 




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