[GNC] 4.10 cannot be opened on macOS Big Sur w/Apple Silicon

Mon Mar 28 16:03:26 EDT 2022

John,

FYI it doesn't work for me on Monterey on an Intel based MacBook Pro.  It
opens at least but when adding a new txn as soon as I type a single letter
in the description Gnucash just disappears entirely :-(  On Big Sur it
doesn't open just displays the error message reported by others.

Cheers David H.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 03:33, john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> This has been reported as https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798489
>  <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798489>
> He's using Gnucash.app Sourceforge or Github, note the
> /Applications/Gnucash.app.. paths. He just happens to also have MacPorts
> installed.
>
> @executable_path is a Mac linker feature that creates paths relative to
> the running executable, in this case
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash. .. means to back up one
> level, so @executable_path/../Resources//lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib tells
> the linker to look at
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib.
> It's not linking the MacPorts version of libcairo-gobject.2.dylib.
>
> The error message is quite clear: "Incompatible library version:
> libgtkmacintegration-gtk3.4.dylib requires version 11603.0.0 or later, but
> libcairo-gobject.2.dylib provides version 2.0.0" and your otool checks bear
> that out: (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.0.0) vs.
> (compatibility version 11603.0.0, current version 11603.0.0). The linker
> would be happy if it was able to find the MacPorts libcairo-gobject,
> because ((compatibility version 11707.0.0, current version 11707.0.0):
> 11707 > 11603, but 2 isn't.
>
> It's strange that it works on Monterey, not that it fails on BigSur (and
> earlier, as the bug reporter is using Catalina and another poster here is
> using Mojave).
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
> > On Mar 28, 2022, at 9:51 AM, William Prescott <will at theprescotts.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Are you installing it with MacPorts? Or from the .dmg file on
> SourceForge?
> >
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/4.10/Gnucash-Intel-4.10-1.dmg/download
> <
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20(stable)/4.10/Gnucash-Intel-4.10-1.dmg/download
> >
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On 2022 Mar 28, at 03-28 10:33:09, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like this might be a bad interaction with software installed
> via MacPorts, but I don't understand the versioning and dynamic loader well
> enough to be sure or to do anything about it.
> >
> > $ otool -L
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib |
> grep libcairo-gobject
> >
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib:
> >       @executable_path/../Resources//lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib
> (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.0.0)
> > $ otool -L /opt/local/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib | grep
> libcairo-gobject
> > /opt/local/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib:
> >       /opt/local/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib (compatibility version
> 11707.0.0, current version 11707.0.0)
> > $ otool -L
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgtkmacintegration-gtk3.4.dylib
> | grep libcairo-gobje
> > ct
> >       @executable_path/../Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib
> (compatibility version 11603.0.0, current version 11603.0.0)
> >
> > On 3/28/22 10:25, William Prescott wrote:
> >> It ran fine on my MacBookPro M1 Max with Monterey.
> >> Will
> >> On 2022 Mar 28, at 03-28 08:03:09, John W. O'Brien via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> >> Good morning all,
> >> Congratulations on the new release.
> >> I am unable to run the new 4.10 on my MacBook Air (M1, 2020) with Big
> Sur (11.6.5). 4.9 has been running fine, as recently as this morning.
> >> The essence of the crash log is:
> >> ====
> >> Termination Reason:    DYLD, [0x3] Wrong version
> >> Application Specific Information:
> >> dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
> >> Dyld Error Message:
> >> Library not loaded:
> @executable_path/../Resources/lib/libcairo-gobject.2.dylib
> >> Referenced from:
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgtkmacintegration-gtk3.4.dylib
> >> Reason: Incompatible library version: libgtkmacintegration-gtk3.4.dylib
> requires version 11603.0.0 or later, but libcairo-gobject.2.dylib provides
> version 2.0.0
> >> ====
> >> Full log is available on request.
> >> What else could I do to diagnose and resolve this?
> >> Thank you,
> >> John
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