[Exist-open] Dashboard doesn't work on Mac Venture with exist 6.2

[Martin M. <mar...@no...>]

I tried to update my version of eXist runnin on Mac Ventura but could not get it to work. The Dashboard does not respond to commands, and there is something with the password operation. I am reinstalling the system, recording the responses as I go along.

The short version is that the Java admin client responds properly to correct passwords and supports user management. The Dashboard rejects bad passwords, but doesn’t support any further operations.  It’s frozen

After deleting the current application as well as the data directory org.exist I retrieve eXist-db6.2.0 dmg and drag it into the Applications folder

I click on the eXist icon and the eXist-d Configuration window appears
I click the Save button and click ‘Yes’ on the question whether to create the specified data directory
The eXist-db launcher shows up at the top menubar. I click on it and open the Dashboard
I click on the login button and enter admin without entering a password
The dashboard  reappears but the exist-db icon and the launcher icon are dead
I open the Java Admin client and enter a password
(This has worked in the past, but it has always struck me as an ambiguous procedure, because there was nothing to confirm the original choice)
The client doesn’ t complain but  also does nothing when I click on the Connect icon
I open the client again and click on Connect without a password.  This time I get taken to the exist Admin client
I go to the User Manage and create an account under my name with a password
I assign myself to various groups including dba
I sign out and  try to sign it again, this time with a wrong password. The connection fails as it should
When I sign in again with the correct password I am taken to exist Admin Client
I now look up the admin user, which shows paswords dots, the same length of my user password
I change that password to my password
Now both the admin account and my account respond to the proper password and fail with deliberately wrong passwords
Now I try to log in via the Dashboard.  I get the same behaviour for both the admin and my password
The dashboard complains if I put in the wrong paswords.
It does not complain about the right passwords, but it doesn’t respond to any further commands. I can’t get to the package to install TEI Publisher or anything else