DT wont open

[grandare]

Very new here.

DT Splash screen appers breifly but does not open. Running on MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5,  Sequoia 15.3

darktable 5.0.0
Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Johannes Hanika and other contributors.

Compile options:
Bit depth -> 64 bit
Debug -> DISABLED
SSE2 optimizations -> ENABLED
OpenMP -> ENABLED
OpenCL -> ENABLED
Lua -> ENABLED - API version 9.4.0
Colord -> DISABLED
gPhoto2 -> ENABLED
GMIC -> ENABLED - Compressed LUTs are supported
GraphicsMagick -> DISABLED
ImageMagick -> ENABLED
libavif -> ENABLED
libheif -> ENABLED
libjxl -> ENABLED
LibRaw -> ENABLED - Version 0.22.0-Devel202403
OpenJPEG -> ENABLED
OpenEXR -> ENABLED
WebP -> ENABLED

See https://www.darktable.org/resources/ for detailed documentation.
See https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/new/choose to report bugs.

 0.0023 [dt starting]

/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable -d common
0.0043 application_directory: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS
0.0045 darktable.datadir: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/Resources/share/darktable
0.0046 darktable.plugindir: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/Resources/lib/darktable
0.0047 darktable.localedir: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/Resources/share/locale
0.0049 darktable.configdir: /Users/darengranger/.config/darktable
0.0050 darktable.cachedir: /Users/darengranger/.cache/darktable
0.0051 darktable.sharedir: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/Resources/share
0.0052 darktable.tmpdir: /private/var/folders/34/fjv_tmvn2s72dpgh7z352pjh0000gn/T
0.0053 new_xdg_data_dirs: (null)
0.6299 [init] database `/Users/darengranger/.config/darktable/data.db' couldn't be opened. aborting
0.6304 ERROR : cannot open database

[victoryforce]

0.6299 [init] database `/Users/darengranger/.config/darktable/data.db' couldn't be opened. aborting 0.6304 ERROR : cannot open database

Check the permissions on the following folders and see if your user has write permissions:

• ~/.config
• ~/.config/darktable

Also check if your database files are writable:

• ~/.config/darktable/data.db
• ~/.config/darktable/library.db

[grandare]

I'm assuming Permission denied means they are not writable?

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MacBookPro:~ darengranger$ /.config
-bash: /Users/darengranger/.config: is a directory
MacBookPro: darengranger$ /.config/darktable
-bash: /Users/darengranger/.config/darktable: is a directory
MacBookPro: darengranger$ /.config/darktable/data.db
-bash: /Users/darengranger/.config/darktable/data.db: Permission denied
MacBookPro: darengranger$ /.config/darktable/library.db
-bash: /Users/darengranger/.config/darktable/library.db: Permission denied
MacBookPro: darengranger$

[zisoft]

@grandare: please try the following commands in the terminal:

sudo chown -R <your user name> ~/.config
sudo chmod -R +w ~/.config

Then start darktable again.

[pehar1]

User darengranger needs read and write permissions for both database files data.db and library.db otherwise darktable will run into problems.

[grandare]

@zisoft no change after running those two commands. (ran 1st command, ask for PW then ran 2nd command) then tried to restart DT

@pehar1 Am I able to give DT write access to data.db and library.db?

Sorry, like a said very new to terminal and DT.

[zisoft]

please run the following commands and post the output here:

ls -l ~/.config

and

ls -l ~/.config/darktable

[grandare]

MacBookPro:~ darengranger$ ls -l ~/.config
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 darengranger  staff    96 Jan  8 19:53 Autodesk
drwx------@ 33 darengranger  staff  1056 Feb  3 11:33 darktable
drwx------   3 darengranger  staff    96 Aug 12 20:09 gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x   3 darengranger  staff    96 Jan 14  2022 gtk-3.0
MacBookPro:~ darengranger$ ls -l ~/.config/darktable
total 174896
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff     44804 Feb  1 17:36 darktablerc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Feb  1 17:32 data.db
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff         0 Oct 17  2023 data.db-pre-4.4.2
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Aug  3  2024 data.db-pre-4.6.1
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Aug  3  2024 data.db-pre-4.8.1
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Aug  3  2024 data.db-pre-5.0.0
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    311296 Nov 19  2023 data.db-snp-20231119120505
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    311296 Jan 21  2024 data.db-snp-20240121211934
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff    319488 Jan 28  2024 data.db-snp-20240128221322
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff    319488 Feb  7  2024 data.db-snp-20240207205100
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Feb 19  2024 data.db-snp-20240219200218
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff    331776 May 19  2024 data.db-snp-20240519182628
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff    331776 Aug  3  2024 data.db-snp-20240803121230
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff  10780672 Aug  3  2024 library.db
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff         0 Oct 17  2023 library.db-pre-4.4.2
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff  10780672 Aug  3  2024 library.db-pre-4.6.1
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff  10780672 Aug  3  2024 library.db-pre-4.8.1
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff  10780672 Aug  3  2024 library.db-pre-5.0.0
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff   1245184 Nov 19  2023 library.db-snp-20231119120505
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff   2326528 Jan 21  2024 library.db-snp-20240121211934
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff   3670016 Jan 28  2024 library.db-snp-20240128221322
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff   4030464 Feb  7  2024 library.db-snp-20240207205100
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff   9437184 Feb 19  2024 library.db-snp-20240219200218
-rw-------  1 darengranger  staff   9895936 May 19  2024 library.db-snp-20240519182628
-rw-------@ 1 darengranger  staff  10190848 Aug  3  2024 library.db-snp-20240803121230
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff      6702 Feb  1 17:32 shortcutsrc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff      6557 Aug  3  2024 shortcutsrc.backup
-rw-r--r--@ 1 darengranger  staff      6585 Feb  1 17:32 shortcutsrc.defaults
-rw-r--r--  1 darengranger  staff      6557 Jan 28  2024 shortcutsrc.edit
drwxr-xr-x  4 darengranger  staff       128 Feb 11  2024 styles
-rw-r--r--  1 darengranger  staff        35 Jan 28  2024 user.css
MacBookPro:~ darengranger$