Text entry impossible on Mac OS 10.5.8 on 2.4.14, 2.6.0

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Jan 7 23:04:14 EST 2014


On Jan 7, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <from.gnucash at jdlh.com> wrote:

> 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.

Intel or PPC?
For 2.4.14, try deleting Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

For 2.6.0, what are your localization settings? Is there a crash report in /Applications/Utilities/Console?

Regards,
John Ralls


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