Gnucash 2.4.11/2.4.13 crash on Mac OS X 10.8.4

[Tim LeMaster]

Interesting I opened those preferences but didn't change anything (as
everything was correct) and now it launches.

Thanks!
Tim



On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:58 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Tim LeMaster <tim at thelemasters.net> wrote:
>
> > I've been using Gnucash for years on Linux and now on Mac. However I
> > attempted to start Gnucash 2.4.11 (which I've been running without issue)
> > and it crashes. I upgraded to 2.4.13 and it also crashes with the same
> > problem.
> >
> > Here is the output
> >
> > Process:         Gnucash-bin [290]
> > Path:            /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> > Identifier:      org.gnucash.Gnucash
> > Version:         ???
> > Code Type:       X86 (Native)
> > Parent Process:  launchd [137]
> > User ID:         501
> >
> > Date/Time:       2013-08-25 14:37:40.180 -0400
> > OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
> > Report Version:  10
> >
> > Interval Since Last Report:          4880820 sec
> > Crashes Since Last Report:           46
> > Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   23
> > Anonymous UUID:                      4B45A729-22B1-FD1A-D6C2-3F3DB632C49B
> >
> > Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> >
> > Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
> > Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
> >
> > Application Specific Information:
> > *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception
> 'NSInvalidArgumentException',
> > reason: '*** -[__NSCFString stringByAppendingString:]: nil argument'
> >
> > Application Specific Backtrace 1:
> > 0   CoreFoundation                      0x9721de8b __raiseError + 219
> > 1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x92d4152e objc_exception_throw +
> > 230
> > 2   CoreFoundation                      0x9717d60b +[NSException
> > raise:format:] + 139
> > 3   Foundation                          0x93eef08c -[NSString
> > stringByAppendingString:] + 99
> > 4   Gnucash-bin                         0x00014886 main + 310
> > 5   Gnucash-bin                         0x00014716 start + 54
> > 6   ???                                 0x00000002 0x0 + 2
> >
> > I deleted /Library/Gnucash-2.4 and it was recreated when I relaunch
> Gnucash.
> > Any ideas?
>
> In System Preferences>Language & Text, make sure that you have at least
> one language and that the region is set to something reasonable.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>