Problem starting OS X version

[Brendan Simon]

John Ralls wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Brendan Simon wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm having trouble starting OS X version of GnuCash (2.2.9.4).
>>
>>
>> I can get it to start once when I first download and install it, but
>> subsequent invocations silently fail.
>> The initial invocation asks for a password : "osascript requires that
>> you type your password", but this does not happen on subsequent tries.
>>
>> It does seem to work if I run directly from the .dmg and alerts me that
>> this program has been downloaded from the internet.  It seems if I run
>> it more than once from the Applications folder that the issue presents
>> itself.
>>
>> Any idea how to fix this ??
>>
>>     
>
> Is this PPC or Intel?
>
> Another user reported a similar problem on PPC. What fixed it in his case was to rename Gnucash.app to something else, launch (which failed), then rename it back to Gnucash.app. After that, it worked normally.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>   

It is Intel. The same fix works for me too (with the quick limited
testing I've done) :)

It maybe that dragging the app bundle out of the Application folder and
back again may fix the problem also ??

Hopefully the next build will fix this issue, and hopefully the issue
with the zombie dbus-daemon too :)

I think the readme states that there is no way to determine the
associated dbus-daemon but surely there could be a startup script that
can work out the PID of the application and select the next higher PID
that is called /opt/gnucash-<version>/bin/dbus-daemon ??

$ ps aux | grep -i gnucash
brendan 67023 0.0 0.0 599780 428 s002 R+ 5:16pm 0:00.00 grep -i gnucash
brendan 67020 0.0 0.1 79016 2864 ?? S 5:16pm 0:00.06
/opt/gnucash-2.2.9/libexec/gconfd-2
brendan 67018 0.0 0.0 600128 472 ?? Ss 5:16pm 0:00.00
/opt/gnucash-2.2.9/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address
6 --config-file
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/session.conf
brendan 66978 0.0 0.9 476360 39532 ?? S 5:16pm 0:06.07
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash bin --config-path
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash --share-path
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/gnucash

Cheers, Brendan.