Bootup issues on OS X #5250

When I boot up Bitcoin Core on my Mac, the startup window (with Verifying blocks...) stays in front of any other open programs I have. After clicking on the Bitcoin window a few times it will go away, but then it cannot be found again (even though Bitcoin-Qt is still running). Also, if I enter Mission Control, the startup window disappears until I exit Mission Control, when it should be associated with Bitcoin-Qt. This is annoying as it interferes with any other work I am trying to do and occasionally the main Bitcoin Core window does not come up either. Sometimes after making the startup window go away, the main window will not come up, and I have to quit Bitcoin-Qt (which opens the quitting window) and rrestart without making the startup window disappear to have Bitcoin-Qt open normally.

Details: OS: OS X 10.9.5 Bitcoin-QT: v0.9.3.0-gcea5e49-beta

I'm not sure if this will be helpful at all, but Dogecoin-Qt works properly during startup, with the startup window being associated with Dogecoin-Qt in Mission Control and never covering other apps or disappearing altogether.

Thanks for submitting this issue. I will have a look at it next week.

Could you post the debug.log?

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/debug.log

Thanks

@hughneale Here's the debug.log for a Bitcoin-Qt startup (without making the startup window go away) to when the normal window opens. Let me know if you want me to do a startup with making the window disappear.

(debug.log link removed as it is "useless at this point") (is this really supposed to be 20k+ lines?)

Possibly relevant information: I also run Armory.

I could reproduce the issue when i use official 0.9.3 OSX version. Same issues here in OSX10.10.

Then i tried compile bitcoin-qt (master) with Qt 5.3.1 and also with Qt 5.2.1 (was uses for the 0.9.3) builds. My builds where fine and there where no startup-/window-leveling-problems.

Is it still Gavin doing the OS X build on a 10.6 machine?

No, OSX builds are done in a deterministic Linux VM

On Nov 10, 2014, at 2:35 AM, Jonas Schnelli notifications@github.com wrote:

Is it still Gavin doing the OS X build on a 10.6 machine?

The debuglog is useless at this point. I can only imagine that the Qt-SDK from the gitian-build VM might be different to the one i tested (installed trough homebrew, also Qt 5.2.1.). I might find time to do a gitian LXC build on my mac.

The splash-screen setup has changed in master since 0.9.3. (a49f11d9edf2f7dbce154ca370494a8f86e013d0 ) . I'm not sure if that will fix the problem, but I suspect it may not be worth testing anything from before that.

It's also worth noting that the startup windowing behavior depends on how the application is launched. For example, launching ./bitcoin-qt behaves quite differently compared to clicking the .app, since they have different parent processes.

I can confirm that this reported issue is solved in the master. I just did checkout tag/v0.9.3 did a local build agains my local installed qt 5.2.1 and could reproduce the problem. git reset --hard to master and autoreconf -i, make clean and make had give me a bitcoin-qt where the problem could NOT be reproduced.

IMO this issue is fixed.

Sounds great! Any idea when the next version will be out with the fix then?

@jonasschnelli thanks for testing.

Also, if anyone is looking for a temporary fix, to completely hide Bitcoin-Qt you can right click the app and then click "Hide" to make it disappear. To make the windows become visible again, right click and then choose "Show".

retested in 0.10.rc1. Solved. Can be closed.