Announcement: GnuCash 2.6.5 Release 2014-12-19

[Chris Henderson]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:04 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Dec 19, 2014, at 9:57 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:28 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> > On Dec 19, 2014, at 4:16 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> >> On Dec 19, 2014, at 3:56 PM, David Gillam <dave at davegillam.org> wrote:
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>> >> gnucash.org = "Download GnuCash 2.6.5 Mac OS X Intel" (
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/Gnucash-Intel-2.6.5-1.dmg
>> )
>> >>
>> >> Interesting...now that link goes to the correct place.
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, even after (re)downloading it, it still crashes on
>> startup.
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>> >> I'm running OSX 10.10.1.
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>> > Sometimes it takes a few minutes for the website changes to settle out,
>> particularly since I’d forgotten something when I set the links; I’d
>> already pushed the change when your first message came in; OTOH, when I
>> tried the link before fixing it I didn’t get anything.
>> >
>> > There are two problems with the launcher script,
>> Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash, which you can fix with the following
>> patch if you like, or you can wait a bit for me to build new bundles and
>> upload them.
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>> I’ve uploaded new bundles, Gnucash-(Intel|PPC)-2.6.5-2.dmg, to SF and
>> adjusted the links on the web page. It will start slowly the first time,
>> there’s a problem with libguile finding its precompiled binaries in the
>> bundle, but I’ll need help from the Guile folks to sort that out. It may
>> take a couple of days, or it may take longer if there’s a guile bug.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
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> It’s not working on OS X Yosemite (10.10).
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> Downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.5-2 from the SF direct link. Launching the
> application causes the same problem reported by others.
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> Tried to revert back and downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.4-5 and that’s not
> launching either.
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> Please tell me how to revert back and launch Gnucash-Intel-2.6.4-5 - what
> files do I need to delete from my home directory?
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> Hmm. 2.6.5-2 started up just fine for me the first time, though it took a
> really long time, but it crashed immediately on a second startup.
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> Try removing ~/.cache/guile. If you use Finder, .cache is hidden, so you
> need to pick Go>Go to Folder… from the menu and enter ~/.cache in the
> resulting dialog box.
> You’ll probably want to empty the trash before trying Gnucash-2.6.4 again.
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> Gnucash-Intel-2.6.5-2.dmg is now working fine.

I went to the ~/.cache/guile folder and moved the ccache/ directory to some
other place. Gnucash is now starting. There's now a new
~/.cache/guile/ccache folder (automatically created)

Thanks.