[GNC] MacOS Catalina Gnucash 3.7 won't start

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Oct 27 23:10:58 EDT 2019


Chris,

Weird. With GnuCash (sort of) running, open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor. Find gnucash in the process list and select it. Click the gear icon at the left end of the toolbar and pick "spindump" from the menu. It will collect for a few seconds and then present a window with a bunch of stack traces that may show what GnuCash is waiting for.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 27, 2019, at 4:53 PM, Chris Martin <clm1492 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Chris and John,
>     I can confirm that in System Preferences->Security &
> Privacy->Privacy->Files and Folders Gnucash is shown as "Full Disk Access"
> as a result of me adding it to the Full Disk Access list earlier in my
> debugging.  Out of curiosity, I removed it from the Full Disk Access list
> and it made no difference.
>     After returning it to "Full Disk Access," I then added the "--nofile"
> option to ./Gnucash (and then again in addition to --debug and --extra) and
> Gnucash still just hangs with no stdout or stderr output and *without*
> generating a trace file.  Running a ps seems to show that the process is
> just sleeping.
> 
> 25294 s000  S+     0:00.00 ./Gnucash --nofile
> 
>   I tried a kill -9 in addition to a kill -2 to get it to write a trace
> file, but no joy.
> 
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 12:37 PM chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> Under System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy->Files and Folders,
>> does Gnucash.app have access to the Documents Folder (or the folder where
>> your Gnucash data file lives?
>> 
>> Also, try again running from the terminal and add the --nofile option
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On Oct 27, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Chris Martin <clm1492 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ./Gnucash --debug --extra
>> 
>> 
>> 
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