GnuCash 2.4.7 segv on Mac OS 10.6.8

[John Ralls]

On Jul 3, 2011, at 5:26 PM, David Bergum wrote:

> Inline....
> On Jul 3, 2011, at 12:48, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 3, 2011, at 7:12 AM, David Bergum wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:20, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Are there any messages in the Console log
>>> 
>>> Oh, I see this in the log, don't know if it is relevant:
>>> 
>>> 7/3/11 9:07:41	[0x0-0x415415].Gnucash-bin[54371]	* 09:07:41  WARN <gnc.bin> Error parsing command line arguments: [Unknown option -psn_0_4281365]; try `gnucash --help` for available options.
>> 
>> Hmm. That's supposed to be removed by 
>> # Strip out the argument added by the OS.
>> if [ x`echo "x$1" | sed -e "s/^x-psn_.*//"` == x ]; then
>>   shift 1
>> fi
>> in the launcher script -- and is, on my system. That's very odd.
>> 
>> I'd expect to see something like
>> 
>> 7/3/11 10:18:58 AM	[0x0-0x1642641].org.gnucash.Gnucash[83558]	No GDK Window
>> 7/3/11 10:18:58 AM	[0x0-0x1642641].org.gnucash.Gnucash[83558]	No NSWindow
>> 7/3/11 10:19:49 AM	[0x0-0x1642641].org.gnucash.Gnucash[83558]	Found Finance::Quote version 1.17
>> 
>> 
>> But your task says "Gnucash-bin" instead of "org.gnucash.Gnucash". How are you starting Gncuash?
> 
> I was clicking the alias I moved to the dock.  I have travelled home today, plugged in my laptop, and launched it similarly and I no longer get the above message or the crash.  I am at a loss as to what could have been going on.  I must have had something mixed up in my environment.  My machine was just sleeping in the car.  Odd.
> 
> I'm really sorry for wasting your time with this.

An alias? Where's the original? It's never  occurred to me to test launching from an alias, and the bit of the launcher script that links to the Resources directory could get fooled by doing that. I'll have to look in to that.

Regards,
John Ralls