Gnucash aqua

Lenore Horner LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 25 05:27:51 PST 2009


Half-solved - see bottom.

> Powerbook G4 running 10.5.6
>
> Because my attempt to upgrade Gnucash mangled things, I wiped out  
> Macports by doing
>
> according to the directions at http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.uninstalling 
> .
>
> I then reinstalled MacPorts 1.7 and followed the directions at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail 
>   ( in particular:
>
> ) for installing Gnucash as Aqua only (without hbci, ofx, or  
> quotes).  There was one hick-up in the installation which maybe  
> means the uninstall directions need correction.
>> --->  Installing dbus @1.2.12_4
>> --->  Activating dbus @1.2.12_4
>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /Library/ 
>> LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist already exists and  
>> does not belong to a registered port.  Unable to activate port dbus.
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gconf dbus dbus- 
>> glib gettext libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw glib2 perl5 perl5.8  
>> gtk2 atk cairo fontconfig freetype zlib libpixman libpng gtk-doc  
>> docbook-xml-4.3 xmlcatmgr docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils docbook-xml  
>> docbook-xml-4.1.2 docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5  
>> docbook-xml-5.0 iso-codes py25-hashlib openssl python25 libxml2  
>> libxslt p5-xml-parser py25-libxml2 rarian getopt intltool gnome- 
>> common jasper jpeg pango shared-mime-info tiff orbit2 libidl  
>> goffice bzip2 libart_lgpl libglade2 libgsf gnome-vfs desktop-file- 
>> utils popt gnome-mime-data libbonobo guile16 readline  
>> libgnomeprintui gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme icon-naming- 
>> utils p5-xml-simple p5-xml-namespacesupport p5-xml-sax  
>> libgnomecanvas libgnomeprint bison m4 libgnomecups libgnomeui gnome- 
>> keyring autoconf help2man p5-locale-gettext libgcrypt libgpg-error  
>> libtasn1 libbonoboui libgnome esound audiofile libtool automake  
>> libgtkhtml3 enchant libsoup gnutls lzo opencdk lzmautils slib slib- 
>> guile16
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>> LenoreHorner-PBG4-12:macports mlh$ sudo port install gnucash  
>> +without_hbci +without_ofx +without_quotes
>> Password:
>> --->  Activating dbus @1.2.12_4
>>
>
>
> Gnucash finished installing and left me the following message.
>> --->  Activating gnucash @2.2.8_0+no_x11+without_hbci+without_ofx 
>> +without_quotes
>> Warning: When you run gnucash, if it pops up a window saying:
>> Warning:    An error occurred while loading or saving configuration
>> Warning:    information for gnucash.
>> Warning: it is probably because it cannot connect to
>> Warning: the DBus server.  Either place the following in your login
>> Warning: shell profile:
>> Warning:     eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax`
>> Warning: or invoke gnucash via 'dbus-launch gnucash'. Note that with
>> Warning: the latter alternative you may end up with a stray dbus
>> Warning: process after you quit gnucash.
>> --->  Cleaning gnucash
> Sure enough, Gnucash spit out the error above so I edited  
> the .profile in my home directory and added the line directed.
>
> Opening a new terminal window now causes the following error message.
>> Failed to start message bus: Check-in failed: Permission denied
>>
>> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
>
> What do I do now?
I didn't remember any discussion of this on the list, but there is a  
track discussion which I found just now, so this part is fixed.  Just  
restart the computer.

Lenore
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