Re: Growl Won't Load at Login

[Daniel Siemer]

Hello, so Growl 1.4 is a transition release with regards to the Start
at Login feature. While Growl 1.4 is not sandboxed, Growl 2.0 is, and
after we are sandboxed, we will no long be able to influence the Start
at Login list in your user preferences. There is a new method for
doing launch at login that is sandbox friendly. When you add the item
to the start at login list manually, when growl launches again, we
detect that, and upgrade you to the new method, and delete the old so
you don't wind up with two things trying to launch growl. Growl 2.0
will no longer do this, and the start at login switch will only be
tied to the new method.

The new sandboxing friendly method uses launchd to start a launcher
for us, which then launches Growl. Unfortunately launchd is an
annoying beast that likes to screw up, no matter how right our code is
(And believe me, we aren't the only app developer facing this issue).
To check if the new launcher is registered properly, you can use the
following command in terminal:
launchctl list | grep growl

And if its been added properly, you should see in the result an entry
with the identifier com.growl.GrowlLauncher. If it isn't getting
registered, there are some things you can try, repair permissions,
repair your launchd database (can be done using a utility like
cocktail if you prefer), and repair the user acl list.

On Aug 31, 7:18 pm, Bobby Thompson <torgo....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had this happen more than once, and can seemingly re-create it every
> time...
>
> If I turn auto load in growl off, Quit the Program, then go back in and try
> to re-enable it, the switch will show on but if I log out & back in it will
> NOT load...
>
> No matter what I do I cannot get Growl to load on login...  I even go as
> far as to turn off auto load & add growl to login items in system
> preferences...
>
> Upon loading, Growl will automatically turn the auto load switch on then
> REMOVE the entry from login items.  Again if I then log out then log back
> it, Growl does NOT load...
>
> The only solution is to fully delete Growl and all related items (styles,
> preferences), reboot, re-download Growl and re-configure it from scratch.
>  One this is done it will work as expected, but if I ever disable auto load
> for any reason I end up in the same place all over again...
>
> I'm using the most current version of grows (1.4) and the latest version of
> Mac OS X (10.8.1)...
>
> The install I'm using is a clean format and install that I setup a couple
> weeks ago.  This same problem happened to me on my prior image which was an
> upgrade install of 10.8...

[WEarnestGainse]

Me WEarnestGainse attached the section of the system log (Console) for two startups of Growl where it replaces what it says is a non-sandboxed version of Growl with the sandboxed version and then it fails because of incompatibility(?!). 

Growl 1.4 everywhere as far as I can tell. Mac OS X 10.7.4. Bottom line: I can't put Growl 1.4 in the list of logon items at startup and have it stick for the next startup of the machine. I look for notifications from NetNewsWire, 1Password, SuperDuper!, Speed Download, Dropbox. Everything in Growl is "ON".

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[Charlie S]

Growl 2.0 is awaiting approval

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jenny M <saff...@gmail.com> wrote:

And what if it's not listed in the launchctl list?

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[Carsten]

Does anyone at Growl know if Apple fixed this? I had the same problem, Growl was not loading at login. That didn't change when I rebuilt the launchd database with Cocktail, I also repaired all permissions. No change after a reboot.

I then updated from Lion 10.7.4 to 10.7.5, and all of a sudden, Growl was loading again at login. And 1Password as well. So I'm not sure if my launch database was seriously messed up, or if there some changes?