gnucash hangs

[Lenore Horner]

On Jul 16, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Gregory Dodwell wrote:

> Just installed darwinports/macports 1.60, latest Xcode (3.1) OSX  
> 10.5.4, Xquartz 2.2.3 ...
>
> trying to launch gnucash 2.2.5, the splash hangs at "getting data",  
> any other activated OSX or X11 application in its space is unable to  
> "get in front of" the splash ... indeed, I need to manually activate  
> Spaces to switch to other running programs in different spaces  
> instead of just clicking on their Dock icons as usual.
>
> I tried removing ~/.gnucash ... no difference. Updating to the  
> latest Xquartz has not helped either ... any clues?
>
> Greg./
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This sounds like a known bug in an older version of Gnucash (that I  
thought Macports had updated past).  In that version, the issue was  
that the splash screen also got in front of  dialog box complaining  
about a file failure on shut-down.  The work-around was to start  
gnucash from the command-line without loading a file, then load the  
file.

Lenore