Updated Gnucash doesn't handle preferences

[Pete Crite]

Hi,

I opened up a ticket for this yesterday, but good to know other people  
have got the same problem: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16755

You might notice the last post says: "Here the problem disappears  
after deactivating gconf @2.24.0_0 and reactivating gconf @2.22.0_0.  
So, I suppose the bug is in gconf @2.24.0_0."
Unfortunately, I've gone and deleted my old installation already, and  
it appears it's a little complicated to activate old versions of  
ports, unless they're already installed. If you can confirm that the  
bug is in gconf @2.24.0_0, I'm sure that'd be useful.

I was going to post to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ as well, as that's  
where the gconf page says to post, however I just saw this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425060

I'm not sure if this is related? Some of the posts are over a year  
ago. I'm a bit too terminal-phobic to attempt the workaround, but if  
it works for anyone, please let me know.

Cheers.


On 6/10/2008, at 10:52 AM, David Rowe wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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