I'm almost certain this is a permissions problem on my laptop. I ran it with sudo just fine, and it created the kstars directory in /var/root. I'm going to do a permissions check on my folders leading up to the App Support/kstars folder. Thanks for all the help. I'll report back what I find.

Ok please do.

Meanwhile I sent a patch to Jasem for the dbus issue I saw on the other laptop based on what we were discussing. I will build a new dmg with this patch applied and this might work better for you.

But for now I’m off to bed. I have work in the morning

Thanks,

Rob

Thanks again Rob for all the help. I did make some progress in that I've determined that the permissions weren't a problem. However, in printing the libraries used between my desktop (working) and laptop (not working), I'm finding a different dbus library path. The desktop points to. However, the laptop points to
If I unload the plist and move the dbus directory from Plugins to elsewhere, I can get farther in loading kstars, but eventually the program crashes. After putting dbus back to the plugins directory and starting kstars, I get the same frozen state as before. Seems like dbus is the culprit here somehow, but I'm not sure how to diagnose further.

Gabe

Somehow it sounds like you have dbus installed via homebrew on the one computer and not the other. I was thinking they might be conflicting, but that is on the one that works, correct? I would expect it to be the other way around. Well, I will try to build a new dmg with the dbus change in place and maybe that will fix your issue. But it is clearly dbus.

I just built and uploaded a new dmg. You might want to check if this fixes your dbus issue Gabe.

Thanks,

Rob

Thanks Rob. Looks like that didn't help. I tried unloading the dbus plist as well. It still shows the library being loaded as
Just to check, the md5 of the dmg is 63d206366f2ce7d9d36be04adf2a62e6, right? I couldn't check with the link on the site for the mac download for some reason.

Gabe

Yeah the one you just posted is the one that should be loaded, the dbus library embedded in the app bundle

Still having this issue. When running w/ sudo, it runs fine and loads the dbus library. The line about the dynamic session failing might be a clue? I've loaded the plist with
Here's the output

I just did a google search with your dbus error you posted. It was very helpful.

You could try sudo load -w /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/PlugIns/dbus/org.freedesktop.dbus-kstars.plist

before running kstars

Also, check if you have any of these files, I don't think you should.

/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
~/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist

Has anyone tried creating a new user account, logging into that and reinstalling & running kstars? I'd try that to filter out any user specific settings that might be influencing things.

Yes, I've tried this after finding the same page. It doesn't appear to work. I did have those plist files elsewhere, and removed them. Their removal after unloading and reloading the plist (and after reboot) didn't appear to to work.

I've tried w/ another account, and no change.

Ok, one solution that will almost definitely work for you would be to install homebrew and install dbus on the laptop that for some reason is not working with dbus properly.