[GNC] Migrating to iMac from PC

[Patricia Mitchell]

Hi All,

As has previously been mentioned, Gnucash 3.3 does not run at all well on
the current Mac OS (High Sierra and Mojave). My personal solution is to use
Gnucash 2.6.21 - it works well enough for me.

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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 10:28, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 1, 2018, at 8:24 PM, Richard Jones <richardtrevorjones at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Further to the previous correspondence I have now made the migration but
> have a problem and would be grateful for any further technical advice.
> >
> > Migration from gnucash 3.3 on Windows 10 to gnucash 3.3 on MacOS HIGH
> Sierra 10.13.6
> > GNUcash downloaded OK from source forge.
> > System image (dmg file) moved to applications. This process “compiled”
> the image into the application.
> > Gnucash started up ok with a new specimen system.
> > Copied gnucash file via usb stick from PC to iMac
> > Copied file ran ok but then crashed after a few minutes. Before this I
> had dealt with properties and Preferences menus - although they did not
> need changing.
> > The test system now also crashes.
> >
> >
> >
> > Error file shows
> >
> > Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
> > Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000028
> > Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
> >
> > Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
> > Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
> > Terminating Process:   exc handler [0]
> >
> > VM Regions Near 0x28:
> > -->
> >    __TEXT                 0000000103b70000-0000000103b83000 [   76K]
> r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
> >
> > Application Specific Information:
> > objc_msgSend() selector name: visibleFrame
> >
> > There is a lot more in the error report but this seems to be the most
> important part.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea what could have gone wrong?
>
> Actually the most important part is the first line of the stack trace
> which starts about 2 further on, but it’s most likely either
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879 <
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796879> or
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867 <
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796867>. You’ll find a link to a
> test bundle in each, please install and try it. If that doesn’t fix your
> crash please file a new bug report with the whole crash file attached.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
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