slib @3b2_0 prevents gnucash from starting up

[nstanger (Nigel Stanger)]

The new update of slib from @3b1_0 to @3b2_0 stops gnucash (@2.2.9_5 and @2.2.9_6 tested) from starting up. I get a brief flash of the startup screen, then it disappears, and this error message is displayed:

ERROR: In procedure open-file:
ERROR: Permission denied: "/opt/local/share/guile/1.6/slibcat"

Deactivating @3b2_0 and activating @3b1_0 fixes the problem. Reactivating @3b2_ reliably reproduces the problem.

See also Ticket #16961 which dealt with a similar problem going from @3a3_0 to @3b1_0.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

What permissions does /opt/local/share/guile/1.6/slibcat have?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

I see this problem too. The file does not even exist for me.

[nstanger (Nigel Stanger)]

/opt/local/share/guile/1.6/slibcat doesn’t exist for me either. However, /opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat does exist.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The slibcat under guile/1.6/ seems to be created by slib-guile16. Maybe it just needs a rev bump. What happens if you reinstall it?

[nstanger (Nigel Stanger)]

Replying to jmr@…:

The slibcat under guile/1.6/ seems to be created by slib-guile16. Maybe it just needs a rev bump. What happens if you reinstall it?

Nope, no difference, still no slibcat under guile/1.6/ and gnucash still fails to launch. It actually looks like slib-guile16 is installing guile/site/slibcat rather than guile/1.6/slibcat:

$ ls /opt/local/share/guile/site
slibcat
$ port provides /opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat
/opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat is not provided by a MacPorts port.
$ ls /opt/local/share/guile/1.6
guile-procedures.txt  oop/                  slib@
ice-9/                scripts/              srfi/
$ sudo rm /opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat
$ ls /opt/local/share/guile/site
$ sudo port -f uninstall slib-guile16
--->  Unable to uninstall slib-guile16 1.0_2, the following ports depend on it:
--->      gnucash
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating slib-guile16 @1.0_2
--->  Uninstalling slib-guile16 @1.0_2
$ sudo port install slib-guile16
--->  Computing dependencies for slib-guile16
--->  Fetching archive for slib-guile16
--->  Unpacking tgz archive for slib-guile16 1.0_2
--->  Installing slib-guile16 @1.0_2
--->  Activating slib-guile16 @1.0_2
--->  Cleaning slib-guile16
$ ls /opt/local/share/guile/site
slibcat
$ ls /opt/local/share/guile/1.6
guile-procedures.txt  oop/                  slib@
ice-9/                scripts/              srfi/
$ port provides /opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat
/opt/local/share/guile/site/slibcat is not provided by a MacPorts port.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Well, I can't reproduce this. I have an empty /opt/local/share/guile/site/, slibcat in /opt/local/share/guile/1.6/, and gnucash starts normally.

I notice you didn't actually rebuild slib-guile16, since there was an archive.

[hypocrite@…]

I had a similar problem, but I did have a file at /opt/local/share/guile/1.6/slibcat . After giving myself full permissions, Gnucash now starts.

[nstanger (Nigel Stanger)]

Replying to jmr@…:

Well, I can't reproduce this. I have an empty /opt/local/share/guile/site/, slibcat in /opt/local/share/guile/1.6/, and gnucash starts normally.

I notice you didn't actually rebuild slib-guile16, since there was an archive.

Whoops, my bad, I wasn’t paying close enough attention when I generated that, but a full rebuild of slib-guile16 (including cleaning the archive) that I did previous to the one shown above did yield the same failure.

However, today I tried scorched earth:

• port -f uninstall all installed versions of slib-guile16, guile16 and slib
• port clean --archive on all of the above
• rm -rf /opt/local/share/guile to get rid of the dangling slibcat
• port install all of the above

Result: slibcat ended up in guile/1.6/, and gnucash now works happily with slib @3b2. There was obviously something slightly kinked up in there somewhere.

I think we can call this one fixed now, thanks ☺.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

reinstalling those ports works for me too.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I rev bumped slib-guile16 anyway based on comment:8, in r72362.