[GNC] since Catalina, unable to open gnucash

[Christian Lynbech]

I am fuzzy on the details, but one of the changes in catalina (as a way to implement SIP) is that the main is mounted twice, one mount point is read only and if one is accessimg /opt via the wrong mountpoint, wrting is prohibited. I also use MacPorts under catalina without problems, but that does not preclude that special procedures are needed to access /opt.

/Christian

> Den 26. jan. 2020 kl. 07.17 skrev Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au>:
> 
> This doesn’t sound right.
> 
> I use MacPorts, and MacPorts puts all if its files under /opt. I haven’t seen ant references on the MacPorts mailing list to /opt being reserved under SIP.
> 
> Peter
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> Peter West
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> 
>> On 26 Jan 2020, at 2:02 pm, D via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It might be worth asking why OP is using /opt for their data files in the first place. It is more usual for users to place their personal files in the /users hierarchy (i.e., ~/).
>> 
>> On January 26, 2020, at 8:33 AM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems that maybe the /opt directory tree is being restricted by 
>> what OSX called System Integrity Protection.
>> 
>> Try following the steps to turn off SIP here:
>> 
>> http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/05/disable-rootless-system-integrity-protection-mac-os-x/
>> 
>> If not, please open a terminal window and supply the output of the 
>> command "ls -lR /opt".
>> 
>> - Bruce S.
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