Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[David T.]

I'm glad you got it working, but this sounds related to Bug 637414, although I also recall that when I had more than one version of Gnucash installed in my Applications folder (e.g. GnuCash-2.3.17.app and GnuCash-2.4.0.app) that I had problems (which I cannot now recall, since I deleted GnuCash-2.3.17.app).

It does seem that if you have multiple versions of GnuCash installed, that you can get trouble. Was this your situation?

David

--- On Thu, 1/20/11, David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us> wrote:

> From: David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us>
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.
> To: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us>, gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 1:32 PM
> I figured it out.  I had GnuCash
> in:
> 
>    /Applications/GnuCash 4.2.0/GnuCash.app
> 
> with a space in the containing directory.  I renamed
> it to GnuCash_2.4.0 and fixed ~/.gconf.path and GnuCash
> launches w/o the fix path dialog and error.  Sorry for
> all the spinning wheels.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 14:03, David T. wrote:
> 
> > David, John--
> > 
> > There is something flickering in my memory about
> this... Perhaps there is a conflict between Fink and the
> Gnucash bundle. David, have you tried renaming /sw to
> something else, and then firing up Gnucash.app? 
> > 
> > I seem to recall that I was encountering troubles of
> this sort on my installation, and when I cleared out /sw,
> the problem went away. I never did anything else on this
> because I only had Fink for Gnucash. However, it seems to me
> that for long term peaceful coexistence, the Gnucash bundle
> needs to figure out how to work with Fink's modifications to
> the system path. 
> > 
> > John--I am not particularly expert on this, but when
> one installs Fink, we are instructed to run a shell script
> that rewrites the paths, and once that is done, Fink
> packages work. I suspect that this is where the problems
> crop up. While Fink *does* use an initialization script for
> the command line, I was receiving errors when running
> Gnucash.app (i.e., not from a command line). Since I was not
> going to the command line, I don't understand why or how the
> Fink init script was running.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > David
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 1/20/11, David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: David Bergum <dib at red-sky.us>
> >> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow
> Leopard.
> >> To: "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> >> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 10:24 AM
> >> 
> >> On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:10, John Ralls wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 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
> >> 
> >> I tried killall and the dbus-daemon processes from
> Fink
> >> restarted, so they must be in launchd.
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> * 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.
> >> 
> >> I commented out the entire region dealing with
> dbus and
> >> uppon starting GnuCash I got the error:
> >> 
> >>     "An error occurred while
> loading or
> >> saving 
> >>     configuration information
> for
> >> Gnucash-bin. Some
> >>     of your configuration
> settings may not
> >> work 
> >>     porperly."
> >> 
> >> I quit out.
> >> 
> >>> * creating a new user and launching Gnucash
> from that
> >> userid; that should isolate Gnucash from Fink .
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I get the same error in a new admin account with
> default
> >> Mac env, so it looks like the Fink dbus daemons
> are a
> >> problem?  
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to find where dbus is started, but am
> not
> >> finding a plist for it anywhere.
> >> 
> >> Dave
> >> 
> >> David Bergum       
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> David Bergum       
>         <dib at red-sky.us>
> 2415 Saint Pauls Square   
>     218-206-2133 Skype
> Raleigh, NC  27614   
>         612-723-7135 cell
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