Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

[Jim DeLaHunt]

Hello, GnuCash folks:

Many thanks to the developers for this excellent software, and to all 
the community members that have fleshed it out into this tool I rely 
on so heavily.

I've been using GnuCash 2.4.13 successfully on Mac OS X 10.5.8. I 
just tried downloading GnuCash 2.4.14 and 2.6.0. Each of them fails 
with the same symptom:

Run GnuCash application (2.4.14 or 2.6.0)
Gnucash application starts.
Tip of the Day dialog appears. Click Close button. Disappears.
Account window appears.
Open any account (I use "Miscellaneous")
Click in Description field at bottom of register to enter a new transaction.

Observed behaviour:
No character appears in the Description field. A system beep sounds 
at any key press.

Expected behaviour:
Characters appear in the Description field. No system beep.

Further information:
Running 2.6.0 from command line gets an error message about 
"Trace/BPT trap", and app doesn't start at all.
Running 2.6.0 from command line with --debug gets error messages, but 
I suspect not relevant ones. I'll file bug reports for the 2.4.14 and 
the 2.6.0 behaviours, and put more details there.  Likewise, Trace 
file has error message but I suspect not relevant ones.
Workaround in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721260 has no effect.
GnuCash 2.4.13 seems to still work as it always did.
GnuCash 2.6.0 about box says "built from rev 38a0d33+ on 2013-12-29".
Same symptoms with any text input field, e.g. changing the Notes 
field of an Edit Account dialog.
Opening an empty file from the app and putting a transaction into a 
new Account yields the same behaviour.

In other words, both version 2.4.14 and 2.6.0 are completely 
impervious to useful work for me on Mac OS X 10.5.8.  I can't imagine 
this is true for other Mac users, because I don't see gnucash-user 
talk or bug reports about this. Surely if it were widespread, someone 
else would have mentioned it before now. So I must have some unusual 
problem.

I will file bug reports. But that takes time to get right, and I 
wanted to see if anyone could offer some clues right away.

Thanks in advance for your help. Happy New Year to all.
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