Cool it with the wild speculation. FYI I've been running GnuCash 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 on Catalina since the first developer beta in early June with no issues at all.
I suspect from the error messages that the OP is trying to run GnuCash 2.6.x. Those were built as 32-bit apps to support MacOS 10.5 and 10.6. Catalina won't run 32-bit apps. That's why I asked the OP what version of GnuCash they're trying to run. Regards, John Ralls > On Oct 10, 2019, at 7:48 PM, GWB <g...@2realms.com> wrote: > > Chronosync is another app that needed some work to integrate smoothly > with Catalina. This excerpt from their email to users explains: > > << > The Catalina Split > Catalina introduces a new APFS feature called ‘Volume Groups’. Under > Catalina, Apple takes advantage of this ability and splits the boot > volume into two components: System and Data. The System volume is > read-only and contains all the operating system files that should > never change during use of the computer. The Data volume contains > everything else, including the user’s home folders. Through a new > Apple feature known as firmlinks, the two volumes are linked together > to appear as one volume to the user, so you will only see one drive on > your Mac. However, there really are two distinct boot volumes mounted. > You can see the two volumes using Disk Utility or by mounting the > drive on an older macOS. If running a bootable backup, we strongly > recommend starting fresh with a new backup volume and not to copy over > your old bootable backup volume. Read the ChronoSync Catalina Tech > Note for all the details. >>> > > This may have no relevance at all, but if your version of GnuCash > "needs" to alter a specific file in the System folder (which is > doubtful, but possible) Catalina may be using a "hard link" instead of > the underlying file. The devs would know. > > I'm not sure, but it looks like Apple is re-inventing the old LVM and > calling it something different. It's usually good to separate boot OS > from data (Unix welcomes Apple to 1998!), but this might not be the > way to do it. Better to just mount them in separate LVM > containers/volumes, and snapshot them. > > What type of CPU does system information report on your mac? The > error message "Bad CPU type in executable" might be Catalina seeing a > CPU call from GnuCash (amd64 bit i7, usually) as something else. > > Gordon > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:19 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 1:09 PM, gnuc...@pelchar.no-ip.org wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm having trouble starting gnucash on Catalina. Here's the message I get >>> from the command line: >>> >>> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line >>> 95: /Volumes/Macintosh >>> HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin: Bad CPU type in >>> executable >>> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash: line >>> 95: /Volumes/Macintosh >>> HD/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin: Undefined error: 0 >>> >>> Anybody has a clue? >> >> What version of GnuCash? >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
