Gramps 6.0.8 | MacOS Tahoe 26.4
I’ve tried installing Gramps a number of times (application package), all with the same results: The app opens, bounces once in the launch bar, and closes. I don’t see anything in the logs, and can’t find reference to this on this forum. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
There’s two versions of the installer - one for Intel based Macs and one for Apple silicon (ARM).
Running Tahoe you should use the ARM version
Yes, thanks. I did use the ARM version, which acted as I described. And I can confirm that I am on an Apple Silicon (M1) Mac.
The next step should be to start Gramps from a terminal window using this command:
/Applications/Gramps.app/Contents/MacOS/Gramps --debug=“”
Hopefully the problem will be shown in the terminal window.
Thanks.
WARNING: grampsapp.py: line 703: Configuration error:[Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/Users/[user]/.cache/gramps’
The system has R/W access to the .cache folder.
Not sure what you mean by ‘system’. The .cache and all subdirectories should be owned by you [user].
Can you check ownership of these directories especially the gramps folder.
On my Mac it looks like this:
➜ .cache ll -d gramps
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 sam staff 128B Mar 20 2024 gramps
Sorry - in the MacOS interface, permissions are listed as system-staff-everyone.
There is no gramps folder in the .cache folder, so maybe gramps couldn’t create it? The permissions for the .cache folder is drwxr-xr-x.
I have an older macOS version, so there may be changes, that I don’t know of.
If your user name is ‘system’, (try run ‘whoami’ or ‘id’ command from terminal), then you could manually try to create the ‘gramps’ directory under the ‘.cache’ directory (‘mkdir ~/.cache/gramps’) and then try to start Gramps
Thanks. I’m not sure why permissions were messed up for that folder, but they were. I reset permissions so that my account can read/write and then restarted Gramps. It appears to be working. Thank you so much!