Brew'd app not starting

[kevinpapst]

Just tried the tap and the cask installation was easy (if you know how to get around th security warnings). But the first start resulted in a "bouncing app icon" for about a minute.

I forced shutdown of the app and restarted: again bouncing and bouncing and bouncing (in the app tray). Finally it stopped bouncing, but there is no app window (nor any "quick-start" dropdown - not sure how the apps/icons ion the upper right toolbar are called).

How to debug what is wrong?

[AlexandrePTJ]

Log files are stored in /Users//Library/Application Support/Kemai/Kemai. Please post content.

[kevinpapst]

Not existing:

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I had Kemai manually installed before. Could it be, that there is some kind of "leftover" from the old one that is now blocking?

[AlexandrePTJ]

Yes it could be a leftover from a previous version. Config file should be located at : /Users/kevin/Library/Preferences/Kemai. First versions use ini file, now it is a json. I may have missed something during the migration process.

[kevinpapst]

Nope, this directory is also not existing:

Any other idea?

brew remove kemai
brew install kemai

did not change anything...

[kruegge82]

for me is also not working in MacOs Ventura 13.5.2 my app icon is not bouncing but i get also no error or window in ApplicationSupport also no Kemai folder

[maxguru]

I was having a similar issue on Gentoo Linux after upgrading to the latest version (hang/freeze on startup with no sign of life), however, it seems to have resolved itself after I fiddled around with older versions. Not sure what was causing it, maybe old version data was causing an infinite loop in the new version of the app until I ran older versions that somehow corrected it.