Dear John,
SOLVED. Thanks for the pointers, your comment that gnucash was stuck
waiting for something else to happen got me wondering what else might be
pending in the MacOS and eventually led to the solution. My anti-virus
software (Webroot Secureanywhere) wasn't yet working on Catalina.
No AppleScript will affect a Gtk application's coordinates, Gtk manages the
screen itself and gets each monitor's coordinates from Quartz Display Services.
No matter, that's not the problem:
The spindump says that GnuCash hasn't even started. It's hung in
AppleSystemPolicy::waitForEvaluation.
Dear David and John,
Thanks for the suggestion. I do in fact regularly use multiple
external monitors. On the off chance that matters, I unplugged them all
and went to just my main laptop screen only. Repeated all my tests and
gnucash is still sleeping and unresponsive (with no windows).
Chris,
Any chance you have or had a second monitor on your system?
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:42, John Ralls wrote: Chris,
Weird. With GnuCash (sort of) running, open /Applications/Utilities/Activity
Monitor. Find gnucash in the process list and select it. Click the gear icon at
the
Chris,
Weird. With GnuCash (sort of) running, open /Applications/Utilities/Activity
Monitor. Find gnucash in the process list and select it. Click the gear icon at
the left end of the toolbar and pick "spindump" from the menu. It will collect
for a few seconds and then present a window with a
Thanks Chris and John,
I can confirm that in System Preferences->Security &
Privacy->Privacy->Files and Folders Gnucash is shown as "Full Disk Access"
as a result of me adding it to the Full Disk Access list earlier in my
debugging. Out of curiosity, I removed it from the Full Disk Access
> On Oct 27, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Chris Martin wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I've researched the mailing list and the bug lists and seem to have
> run into a problem that is not described there. After updating MacOS to
> Catalina, my existing gnucash application would just hang when started
>
Chris,
Under System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy->Files and Folders, does
Gnucash.app have access to the Documents Folder (or the folder where your
Gnucash data file lives?
Also, try again running from the terminal and add the --nofile option
Chris
> On Oct 27, 2019, at 12:17 PM,