Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[David Bergum]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 17:25, David T. wrote:

> 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?

I did at one time, but I moved the old one to trash and renamed the containing directory, and didn't figure cause and effect that that was when trouble started.  I think I ran 2.4.0 once to be sure it worked, then trashed the old one and renamed the dir, I think.  But recall of details isn't my strong suit any longer!  ;-)

Dave

> --- 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
>>>> 
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>> David Bergum       
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