Gnucash not starting properly- probably gconf & dbus related - SOLVED

[David Rowe]

Thanks Ben & Olaf - now I have two solutions!

Ben - I hadn't realised that a bundled .dmg was now available. I 
downloaded and installed it and it works just fine. I now rely on 
Gnucash for my accounts and a bundled solution is more dependable, so I 
will probably stick with it.

however

Olaf - your comments gave me the clue to what I was doing wrong - it was 
my mistake:
I got a bit weary with sudo-ing every port command in a long session of 
MacPorts maintenance - so I got into the habit of starting with 'sudo 
bash' and then working as superuser for the session. (Yes I know the 
dangers but I am used to being careful). I had indeed noted the comments 
in the port install log about executing the commands to activate the two 
startup items. However, as you say, the first item must be activated as 
root but the second as user. What I was doing was activating both as 
root and presumably the result of that was that the user-mode 
application was unable to talk to the root dbus daemon. When I killed 
the dbus process and reactivated exactly as specified in the log, then 
Gnucash started just fine. After restarting MacOS X, Gnucash still works 
OK so presumably the startup items are now right.
PS - It was the X11 version I built.

Thanks to both of you for your help

David Rowe

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Ben Greenfield wrote:
. . .
> I  just spent a couple of days trying to get it to work on the above 
>  +quartz. I got it to build and launch but all the characters came out 
> as rectangles.
> So I downloaded the .dmg from sourceforge and it was a drag and drop 
> install to applications for a quartz install.

Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> . . .
>   
> here GnuCash quartz is running fine as a quartz build with macports. The
> error message above shows indeed problems with dbus. At the end of the
> installation of dbus a message appears to tell about two startup items
> that must be activated (one as root, one as user). After doing this
> gnucash works fine here. Do oyu have problems with the X11 or the quartz
> version?
>
> Gru? Olaf
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