GnCash Documents & GnuCash problems

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 09:10, Jasper Frumau wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 19, 2010, at 01:14, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>> 
>> >> The error messages you posted don't exactly match the ones I've seen,
>> >> but this is usually a problem with accessing dbus. Did you follow the
>> >> instructions when installing launchd to run:
>> >>  sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
>> >>  launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
>> >
>> > Yes I believe I did all that several months ago. How can I check again if they are running?
>> 
>> You could use Activity Monitor, which is in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
> 
> Launchd is running according to Am.

Well, you should be looking for whether dbus is running, not launchd. launchd will of course be running; it is an integral part of Mac OS X.


> When I enter ps from command line I get very little
>  
>> Or you could use "ps" on the command line.
> 
> $ ps
>   PID TTY           TIME CMD
>  1748 ttys000    0:00.03 -bash

Sure; you will need to use some switches. The ps manpage explains them in detail. I personally tend to use "ps auxww | grep something".


> ps -A gives me a lot. So I did ps -A | grep launchd:
> 
> $ ps -A | grep launchd
>     1 ??         0:41.80 /sbin/launchd
>    24 ??         0:00.20 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/usbmuxd -launchd
>    32 ??         0:04.19 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
>   283 ??         0:00.53 /sbin/launchd
>   306 ??         0:00.14 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent -launchd -allowquit
> 
> Anyways launnchd seems to be running and GnuCash too, but only from the command line.