port and gnucash problem

[jose.castro@…]

I am a newbie with a new MacBook. I read previous tickets but they were too technical for me.

On one user in the computer I installed MacPorts and then installed gnucash. These commands will not run in another user unless I run them like: /opt/local/bin/port or /opt/local/bin/gnucash

Is there a way to fix this?

Then I have a second problem. When trying to run gnucash I get:

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

If I run launchctl load -F /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist then I have no problems, but I don't want to run this everytime.

What can I do?

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Replying to jose.castro@…:

I am a newbie with a new MacBook. I read previous tickets but they were too technical for me.

On one user in the computer I installed MacPorts and then installed gnucash. These commands will not run in another user unless I run them like: /opt/local/bin/port or /opt/local/bin/gnucash

Is there a way to fix this?

Yes, you need to edit the new user's ~/.profile to ​set their PATH to include MacPorts.

Then I have a second problem. When trying to run gnucash I get:

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

If I run launchctl load -F /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist then I have no problems, but I don't want to run this everytime.

What can I do?

The command you're running forces a load each time. What you want to run is launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

From man launchctl you'll see that:

1. -w removes the disabled key and write the configuration files back out to disk.
2. -F forces the loading of the plist. Ignore the Disabled key.

[jose.castro@…]

Thank you very much. Using the launchctl with -w helped solve the problem, gnucash now loads fine.

I modified my ~/.profile in the user that could not run commands from MacPorts by setting PATH. I did exactly what it is said there, but it still doesn't work. I still need to do /opt/local/bin/gnucash. I restarted Terminal and even restarted the computer to reinitialize my session, and it still doesn't work.

So problem 2, solved, problem 1 not.

[jose.castro@…]

Replying to snc@…: Thank you very much. Using the launchctl with -w helped solve the problem, gnucash now loads fine.

I modified my ~/.profile in the user that could not run commands from MacPorts by setting PATH. I did exactly what it is said there, but it still doesn't work. I still need to do /opt/local/bin/gnucash. I restarted Terminal and even restarted the computer to reinitialize my session, and it still doesn't work.

So problem 2, solved, problem 1 not.

Replying to jose.castro@…:

I am a newbie with a new MacBook. I read previous tickets but they were too technical for me.

On one user in the computer I installed MacPorts and then installed gnucash. These commands will not run in another user unless I run them like: /opt/local/bin/port or /opt/local/bin/gnucash

Is there a way to fix this?

Yes, you need to edit the new user's ~/.profile to ​set their PATH to include MacPorts.

Then I have a second problem. When trying to run gnucash I get:

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!

If I run launchctl load -F /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist then I have no problems, but I don't want to run this everytime.

What can I do?

The command you're running forces a load each time. What you want to run is launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

From man launchctl you'll see that:

1. -w removes the disabled key and write the configuration files back out to disk.
2. -F forces the loading of the plist. Ignore the Disabled key.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

What is the result of the following command?

echo $PATH

[jose.castro@…]

Replying to macsforever2000@…:

What is the result of the following command?

echo $PATH

The result is the following {{{ /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin }}}

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

That's the default path; that user is not picking up any changes to $PATH.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Were you able to get the path fixed?

[jose.castro@…]

Replying to snc@…:

Were you able to get the path fixed?

No I haven't being able to fix the problem.

[tobypeterson]

This is a support issue, not a bug. Please contact the users list: ​http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users/