Updated Gnucash doesn't handle preferences

[David Rowe]

I have been using Gnucash 2.2.x for a while now with few problems.

However after a recent set of updates, the new 2.2.7 is not working 
properly:

On starting, Gnucash opens a message box saying:
"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for 
gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly" This 
box won't go away while Gnucash is running.

It also opens another  message box saying:
"Cannot find default values.
The configuration data used to specify default values for Gnucash cannot 
be found in the default system locations. . . . Do you wish to set up 
the configuration data?"

You can the follow a dialogue that is trying to set up configuration 
data - but it doesn't work and I will get the same messages next time I 
run Gnucash.

Gnucash does eventually run but you can't change any of the preferences.

I suspect that the problem is not in Gnucash itself but in the 
dependencies that were also updated about a week ago. I tried 
deactivating Gnucash 2.2.7 and reactivating 2.2.5 - which used to work 
OK. However 2.2.5 now shows exactly the same problems.

I note the recent discussions about gnucash, aqbanking and gwenhywfar, 
so for the record my current configuration for these is:

"bash-3.2# port installed aqbanking aqbanking3 gwenhywfar gwenhywfar3 
gnucash
The following ports are currently installed:
  aqbanking @2.3.3_0
  aqbanking @3.7.2_0 (active)
  aqbanking3 @3.7.1_0
  gwenhywfar @2.5.3_0
  gwenhywfar @3.4.1_0 (active)
  gwenhywfar3 @3.4.1_0
  gnucash @2.2.5_0
  gnucash @2.2.5_1
  gnucash @2.2.7_0
  gnucash @2.2.7_1
  gnucash @2.2.7_2 (active)
"

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

David Rowe