Interesting. That page mentions that the verifying box can take quite some time 
to clear, so it’s possible that I was not patient enough (although GnuCash was 
fully up and functional behind the Verifying dialog). 

David

> On Mar 1, 2016, at 5:33 PM, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 1, 2016, at 2:08 PM, David T. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> OK, John, that first codesign command yields the same info for me as you 
>> have here; your second command is the same as the first, so I can’t verify 
>> the second result.
>> 
>> As for the control-click workaround, I don’t know whether OS X has changed 
>> something recently or what, but it didn’t work. OS X just puts the same 
>> “Verifying” dialog (it also fires up the CPU something fierce!).
>> 
>> I have never seen this dialog 
>> 
>> <Screen Shot 2016-03-01 at 5.00.30 PM.png>
>> 
>> before (despite having installed many non-Appstore programs on this Mac), 
>> which suggests to that Apple changed something. The only way I was able to 
>> get the Ignore and load anyway dialog was to go in to System Preferences and 
>> change Gatekeeper to allow apps from anywhere, Control-Click the icon and 
>> open from there. Then I got the Ignore dialog, got GnuCash to load, and 
>> passed through the Gatekeeper from Hell. And, yes, GnuCash now loads without 
>> trouble, even though I reset GateKeeper to install only AppStore and known 
>> developer apps.
> 
> David,
> 
> Googling "el capitan verifying hang" turns up a lot of hits. Rebooting seems 
> to be a common fix, as does bypassing GateKeeper in System Prefs. One person 
> reported that booting in safe mode resolved the problem, but that might just 
> have been the reboot. This one has a good explanation plus a command-line 
> bypass:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25996484/xcode-wont-start-stuck-on-verifying-xcode
> 
> Note that it's Xcode that caused the hang in that case. Maybe that will 
> motivate Apple to do something about it.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls


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