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

[Tom Carroll]

Ah, yes ­ I installed Gimp.  So I wonder if I need to remove the quartz
version and reinstall the regular X11 version?

BTW ­ Thank you for your help.



On 1/12/09 8:42 AM, "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Tom Carroll <cgbosntom at mac.com> wrote:
>> Mine says:
>> 
>> $ port installed dbus
>> The following ports are currently installed:
>>   dbus @1.2.12_1 (active)
>> 
> 
> So your dbus wasn't built with +no_x11 and I suppose that could be the
> problem. Do you use macports to build something besides gnucash?
> 
> -Charles
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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