2.4.6 gconfd-2 repeated crashes OS X

[Mike Alexander]

--On June 1, 2011 9:54:00 PM -0700 John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
wrote:

>
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Richard Nelson wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Thanks for the help in rolling back to 2.4.5; it worked perfectly
>> and I'm a happy camper now. I'm also a total noob and want to make
>> sure that this is what you want before I try filing a bug report.
>> Thanks again for your help.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> Process:         gconfd-2 [1161]
>> Path:
>> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/libexec/gconfd-2
>> Identifier:      gconfd-2
>> Version:         ??? (???)
>> Code Type:       X86 (Native)
>> Parent Process:  dbus-daemon [1160]
>>
>> Date/Time:       2011-06-01 08:55:37.993 -0700
>> OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
>> Report Version:  6
>>
>> Interval Since Last Report:          214 sec
>> Crashes Since Last Report:           4
>> Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   8
>> Anonymous UUID:
>> 59691E50-67C6-4B32-AFD4-9FB8BD377647
>>
>> Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
>> Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
>> Crashed Thread:  0
>>
>> Dyld Error Message:
>>  Library not loaded:
>>  @executable_path/../Resources/lib/libgconf-2.4.dylib Referenced
>>  from: /Library/Gnucash-2.4/libexec/gconfd-2
>>  Reason: image not found
>>

Your build of gconfd can't use @executable_path to find its libraries 
since gconfd is being loaded by the dbus process started by launchd and 
@executable_path won't be what you want, if it's anything at all.  I 
would suggest that you build everything with their dynamic libraries at 
/Library/Gnucash-2.4/lib (which is the same as 
@executable_path/../Resources/lib because of your symlink), then the 
symlink will find the libraries.  This isn't necessary for libraries 
loaded by GnuCash itself, but it won't hurt and it simplifies things if 
all libraries are built the same way.

I don't know why this worked when you tested it.  You must have had 
some version of the relevant libraries in your search path.  It didn't 
work for me when I tried it on a plain vanilla test ID I keep around 
for this purpose.

While testing this using a different userid, not the one that installed 
GnuCash, I discovered another problem.  Launchctl refuses to load 
~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist because the 
plist file (the target of the symlink) belongs to the wrong user when 
gnucash is run from a user other than the one that installed it. 
Changing the owner of 
Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist 
to root:wheel fixes this problem.  I don't know if changing this in the 
bundle on the install disk is enough to fix this or if it will get 
reset when the bundle is copied to the Applications directory.  At any 
rate this is a secondary error since it only affects machines where 
more than one user runs GnuCash.

      Mike