[GNC] Gnucash 4.0 doesn't launch on MacOS X 10.15.4

[David H]

Normally works for me just doing steps 4, 5, 6 :-)

Cheers David H.


On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 06:42, peterb <peterb at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got this working thanks to some out-of-band advice from Alton Brantley
> (thanks!).  We might consider documenting this if it happens to more people
> on Catalina besides him and me.
>
> (1) Save copy of file in 3.10.
> (2) Delete old copy of Gnucash from hard drive.
> (3) I deleted ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash (probably unnecessary,
> but I was being paranoid).
> (4) Copy GnuCash 4.0 from disk image to /Applications
> (5) Double-click GnuCash 4.0 in /Applications.  Choose "Open" when the OS
> asks you if you're sure you want to open.
>
> At that point, the app still doesn't seem to launch, though it should.
> However subsequent launches work as expected, so:
>
> (6) Double-click GnuCash 4.0 in /Applications again.
>
> At that point 4.0 launched and ran for me.
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:18 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> > That's unfortunately a pretty common user experience on Mac. I haven't
> > been able to figure out where is the disconnect between Launch Services
> and
> > GnuCash after Gatekeeper verification is complete. Gatekeeper also fails
> to
> > remove the com.apple.quarantine xattr from the app bundle and that
> caused a
> > complete failure for one user last week, though it doesn't seem to affect
> > most users.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:56 AM, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Ditto on Mac OS 10.15.5. Opened without issues.
> > > The first time it asked for the standard permission to open since it
> > didn't come from the App Store.
> > > But it didn't open.
> > > Then I opened it again and it was fine.
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > On 2020 Jun 29, at 06-29 11:08:57, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm on 10.13.4 (High Sierra) and it launches without any problem.
> > > J
> > >
> > > On 6/29/20 7:58 AM, peterb wrote:
> > >> ...or at least, not on my instance of it.  No particular user-visible
> > error
> > >> message, no splash screen visible, lots of stuff in the console.
> Happy
> > to
> > >> file a bug or share whatever data might help.
> > >> Is anyone else seeing this, or am I unique?
> > >> -P
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