After sending coins - I get this alert dialog: http://cl.ly/2c0O0m0m3A090V2J2Y0R
And the client crashes about 10 seconds after that no matter what you click.
I have the 0.5.2 version of Bitcoin-QT. Running OSX Lion and I have Growl 1.3.2 installed.
Mac client crashes with "Where is GrowlHelperApp?" #877
issue barmstrong opened this issue on February 20, 2012-
barmstrong commented at 8:41 PM on February 20, 2012: none
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barmstrong commented at 8:42 PM on February 20, 2012: none
Installing an older version of growl (1.2.2) seemed to fix this.
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TheBlueMatt commented at 11:36 PM on February 20, 2012: member
We probably shouldnt depend on growl to be installed though...
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gavinandresen commented at 8:55 PM on February 23, 2012: contributor
Could this have something to do with the USE_DBUS compilation option? I suspect that might make Bitcoin use Growl on the Mac to get Dbus-like functionality (for what, I'm not sure...).
And I might have (accidentally) compiled the 0.5.2 release with USE_DBUS=1.
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p2k commented at 10:38 PM on February 27, 2012: contributor
Well it doesn't depend on Growl - there is a trick in place which involves using AppleScript to call it and Bitcoin-Qt does check for Growl on startup.
You can easily fix this error by choosing the plain Growl.app (the GrowlHelperApp has been included into it). I could probably find out the Growl version and fix the call script appropriately.
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gavinandresen commented at 6:37 PM on February 28, 2012: contributor
@p2k : I'd like to get this resolved before the final 0.6 release, or at least suggest a workaround in the release notes. What do you mean by "choosing the plain Growl.app" ? Choose where?
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tayl0r commented at 11:18 AM on March 1, 2012: none
@gavinandresen He means that right before the app crashes, it pops up a dialog box (http://cl.ly/2c0O0m0m3A090V2J2Y0R)
But it didn't work for me. I chose Growl.app but it still crashed. I haven't found a fix that isn't just "install the old version of Growl".
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p2k commented at 1:06 PM on March 12, 2012: contributor
Ok, I finally got some time for this. Can you please keep your old version of Growl and check for backwards-compatibility? Can't downgrade Growl on my office Mac.
https://github.com/p2k/bitcoin
EDIT: I'm not sure how to make a proper pull request now. If I try, 3 commits are listed: my old one about macdeployqtplus, the merge commit of me, and the new one about the bugfix...
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gavinandresen commented at 5:30 PM on March 20, 2012: contributor
I cherry-picked p2k's commit after testing this on my 10.6.8 Mac first without and then with Growl 1.2.2.
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