ORBit/GConf problem

[rhubbell]

Someone mentioned recently, here, that Gnome is not currently
maintained.  Something like ticket-by-ticket, bug-by-bug fixes only.



On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 11:45 +1000, Pete Crite wrote:
> Hi, I've just updated GnuCash from 2.2.5_0 to 2.2.7_1 on MacPorts  
> (PPC), and am having some problems. I enquired at the GnuCash IRC  
> channel, and was told that it was probably a ORBit/GConf problem, and  
> to enquire here. Also, after lurking on IRC for c. 24 hours, two other  
> people came in with the same problem, so I think this might be quite  
> common? This update also included gconf from 2.22.0_0 to 2.24.0_0 and  
> orbit2 from 2.14.12_0 to 2.14.16_0.
> 
> Every time I open GnuCash, I get two error windows. One says: "The  
> configuration data used to specify default values for GnuCash cannot  
> be found in the default system locations. Without this data GnuCash  
> will still operate properly but it may require some extra time to  
> setup. Do you wish to setup the configuration data?." The other says:  
> "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information  
> for gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work  
> properly." When I get details on the latter, it says: "Failed to  
> contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need  
> to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due  
> to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for  
> information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: dbus- 
> launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch requested, but  
> X11 support not compiled in."
> 
> This happens every time I startup now (after this update), even after  
> I setup the preferences anew. Strangely, the preferences don't even  
> seem to stick. For example, when I select "negative amounts in red",  
> this does not occur in my accounts window. Also, other "on-the-fly"  
> preferences don't stick, such as the confirmation window I get when  
> changing the reconciliation state of transactions. When I select,  
> "don't warn me again", this is not remembered, and the windows will  
> still pop up.
> 
> It's also taking a ridiculous amount of CPU power, and is extremely  
> slow, which I guess is related, possibly to locked files??
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated. I'm a bit of a X11/terminal  
> newbie, so please be gentle!
> 
> Cheers,
> Pete.
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