On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:30 AM, Reuben Cummings wrote: > Using the instructions from > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/Quartz#Building I have > successfully built jhbuild and gnucash. However, I'm stuck on how to > deal with this step: > > "Note: Because of code in WebkitGTK, Gnucash requires Leopard (OSX > 10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6) to build. To get around this, you'll have > to clone the gnucash-on-osx repository, edit gnucash.modules so that > gnucash-unstable and gnucash-svn use the same dependencies as gnucash > and to use --with-html-engine="gtkhtml", change the moduleset line in > .jhbuildrc-custom to point to your local version, and then build. If > that sounds too daunting then it probably is." > > My questions are: > > 1. Will doing this stop gnucash from crashing on startup? > > Currently, I get with the following error > GConf-WARNING **: Failed to load source > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system": Failed: Could not make > directory `/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system': No such file or directory > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/show_splash_screen: Failed to > contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need > to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due > to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for > information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: > /Users/admin/gnucash-stable/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with > the following error: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not > compiled in. > Cannot continue. > ........ > ........ > ........ > )Failed to load key > /apps/gnucash/dialogs/tip_of_the_day/show_at_startup: Failed to > contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need > to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due > to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for > information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: > /Users/admin/gnucash-stable/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with > the following error: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not > compiled in. > Cannot continue. > (a very similar problem is also described in detail at > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-February/019031.html) > > 2. Can I enable python-bindings by compiling with MacPorts > (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/MacOSX/MacPortsDetail#Compiling_on_your_own)? > > 3. If not (2), can someone provide step-by-step instructions for the > note above? (I can figure out the clone > git://github.com/jralls/gnucash-on-osx.git part but am lost > otherwise.)
No, WebKit has nothing to do with your crash, which is probably a dbus permissions issue. Are you trying to start gnucash directly instead of using gnucash-launcher? You can use *either* jhbuild *or* macports. They can't be used together because the dependency libraries get scrambled. This is made extraordinarily clear on the Gtk-OSX Building page on Gnome Live. The note about gtkhtml applies to Tiger, not Lion. That said, those are the "step by step instructions", and if they sound too daunting, they probably are. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
