Any plans for Mac OS 10.8?

[John Ralls]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Herbert Alexander <alex1100 at me.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> I use gnucash for my personal budget,  I have found out the hard away that it won't run on MacOS 10.8. I know how to bypass the Gatekeeper but I don't know how to adjust gnucash  2.411 to run on 10.8. If anyone is currently using a version of gnu cash on 10.8, please let me low which version and where to download it. Is there any adjustment I can make myself to allow the program to run on MacOS 10.8?
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
> 

Hi,

I'm the Mac maintainer, and like the others I use Gnucash 2.4.11 routinely on a fully updated 10.8.2. If it's not launching for you even with the Gatekeeper workaround, then something else must be in the way.

The first question is do you have "Allow user to administer this computer" checked for your userid in System Preferences>Users and Groups? This is necessary for the first launch, so that Gnucash can set some links in /Library.

If you do have admin, the first place to go when something won't launch on a Mac is /Applications/Utilities/Console.app, which is the log viewer. Launch that, open the sidebar (Show Log List, left end of the toolbar; if it's already open it will say "Hide Log List") and look for Gnucash in the "Diagnostic and Usage Information" section. If it actually crashed, there will be a nice crash report. Copy the top down to "Binary Images:" into an email to the list.

The next place to look is in the trace file. See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile#Trace_file_on_OSX for how to find it. We're interested in the last 50 lines or so, so after you've worked out the path from those instructions, run
tail -n 50 /path/to/gnucash.trace | pbcopy
from a terminal session (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and paste the result into an email to the list.

Unfortunately, 10.8 removed a very useful feature which collected the stdout and stderr for applications launched by LaunchServices, so the only way to see that output is to and launch Gnucash by hand in a Terminal session:

/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash

Copy any error messages and paste them to an email…

Regards,
John Ralls