I was able to fix the problem by revealing the invisible files and deleting 
~/.qgis/python/plugin, on the advise of William Kyngesburye.  It worked 
brilliantly.

Thanks all

Kurt
On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:52:06 +0100
> From: Anne Ghisla <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis crash on start up under OS X
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 09:37 +0100, Anne Ghisla wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 18:31 -0600, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>> See if you have a crashlog for QGIS.  Check Console.app and look in 
>>> ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter.
>>> 
>>> On Nov 29, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kurt Springs wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> I just installed Qgis 1.6 on my mac and it is crashing on start up.  Qgis 
>>>> 1.5 was working fine.  I have been getting this message on start up:
>>>> 
>>>> Unable to load the plugin: Unable to load required package rpy2.
>>>> Please ensure that both R, and the corresponding version of Rpy2 are 
>>>> correctly installed.
>> 
>> Hi Kurt, all,
>> 
>> this error message is likely raised by HomeRange_plugin.
>> You can start qgis with all plugins disabled 
>> 
>> qgis --noplugins
>> 
>> (see qgis --help for more options)
>> 
>> and then, in the plugin manager, disable HomeRange plugin. 
> 
> correction: it is already disabled. 
> Try to re-enable it and see if restarting qgis reproduces the crash.
> If so, either uninstall the plugin, either ...
> 
>> ... install/upgrade rpy2 according to
>> your R version. Another plugin that needs R is manageR, usually if one
>> works, the other works too.
> 
> cheers
> Anne
> 
>>>> But I was getting this with 1.5 as well.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried it on my laptop where I don't get the message, and it is still 
>>>> quitting on startup.
>>>> 
>>>> Any idea what's wrong, and how to correct it?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>> Kurt
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