Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[John Ralls]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:55 AM, David Bergum wrote:

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> On Jan 20, 2011, at 0:22, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:59 PM, David Bergum wrote:
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>>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 20:41, John Ralls wrote:
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>>>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:21 AM, David Bergum wrote:
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>>>>> John, might there be some kind of conflict with gconftool-2 installed by Fink in /sw/bin?  That is what my search paths find.
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>>>>> Dave
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>>>>> On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:59, David Bergum wrote:
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>>>>>> Oops, yes the listserv ate the attachments.
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>>>>>> I first get an offer from Gnucash-bin:
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>>>>>> The configuration data used to specify default values for
>>>>>> GnuCash cannont 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?
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>>>>>> I click setup, and there are several options to add search paths to gconf.paths, which
>>>>>> is already updated.  Regardless which path I take, I end up with gconftool-2 throwing 
>>>>>> some kind of error: 
>>>>>> "Failed to execute child process 
>>>>>> "gconftool-2" (No such file or directory)
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>>>>>> Didn't see any additional info in the syslog.
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>>>>>> I am running from an administrative process.
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>>>> I wouldn't have thought so, but if gconftool is getting invoked it isn't from the Gnucash bundle. Do you have a ~/.MacOS/environment.plist that adds /sw/bin to $PATH? 
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>>> No, I don't have any ~/.MacOS directory.  The one in /sw/bin is the one found in terminal tcsh.  I didn't think about the env being different in Aqua.
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>>> I didn't find any other gconftool-2 in my system.
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>>> I haven't found any access issues.  
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>> Hmm. Something's strange, then, because programs launched from Finder (which includes launching from the Dock) don't get the environment from your shell, so Gnucash shouldn't be able to find /sw/bin/gconftool-2.
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>> I guess a more important issue for you is why Gconf isn't starting up correctly. Did you run the "Update Dirs" applet in the dmg? Is dbus getting started? Ooh, there's one: Is there a dbus-daemon or gconfd instance from Fink running? That might cause trouble.
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>> psg dbus
>  263   101     1   0   0:00.00 ??         0:00.00 /sw/bin/dbus-daemon --system
>  502   396   193   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.01 /sw/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session
>  502 41691     1   0   0:00.00 ??         0:00.00 /Library/Gnucash-2.4/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --config-file /Applications/GnuCash 2.4.0/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/session.conf
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> These are the dbus processes I find.  psg is an alias that greps ps output.  I don't know anything about dbus or why Fink would have it.  I use fink to get Xemacs and a few other unix env things I use.

Fink essentially runs a Linux environment in OSX, and lots of Linux programs use dbus for a variety of things, so Fink provides it. I don't remember if Fink adds dbus to launchd, but it might. 

A couple of things to try:
* killall dbus-daemon, then check to see if the Fink ones stay killed (if Fink adds it to launchd, then it will get restarted). If they do, try launching Gnucash

* Comment out the section of Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOSX/Gnucash that start up dbus, and launch Gnucash. The idea here is that it might work if there's only one session dbus-daemon.

* creating a new user and launching Gnucash from that userid; that should isolate Gnucash from Fink .

Oh, and "Update Dirs" just copies your ~/.gnucash directory to ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash, which is where Gnucash-2.4.0 expects to find it.

Regards,
John Ralls