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and subject line Close: gnucash: missing dbus-x11 hard dep for dbus-launch
has caused the Debian Bug report #1120485,
regarding gnucash: missing dbus-x11 hard dep for dbus-launch
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Package: gnucash
Version: 1:5.13-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders software unusable
Dear Maintainer,
I installed gnucash in a clean sid chroot to try to chase another bug.
When attempting to change /any/ settings, all I get is
(gnucash:195096): dconf-WARNING **: 19:37:49.419: failed to commit changes to
dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)
and they don't change.
http://packages.debian.org/file:dbus-launch ->
/usr/bin/dbus-launch dbus-x11 ->
# apt install dbus-x11
worked and I was able to edit them.
It's a reasonable assertion, I think, that an inability to configure
gnucash makes it unusable. Thus, grave.
Best,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii gnucash-common 1:5.6-1~bpo12+1
ii guile-3.0 3.0.8-2
ii guile-3.0-libs 3.0.8-2
ii libaqbanking44 6.5.3-1
ii libboost-filesystem1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii libboost-locale1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii libboost-program-options1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii libboost-regex1.74.0 [libboost-regex1.74.0-icu72] 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u10
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-7
ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.73.06-2+b1
ii libdate-manip-perl 6.91-1
ii libdbi1 0.9.0-6
ii libfinance-quote-perl 1.54-3
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2+deb12u7
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.38-2~deb12u3
ii libgwengui-gtk3-79 5.10.1-2
ii libgwenhywfar79 5.10.1-2
ii libhtml-tableextract-perl 2.15-2
ii libhtml-tree-perl 5.07-3
ii libicu72 72.1-3
ii libofx7 1:0.10.9-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1
ii libpython3.11 3.11.2-6+deb12u6
ii libsecret-1-0 0.20.5-3
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.48.1-2~deb12u1
ii libwww-perl 6.68-1
ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1
Versions of packages gnucash recommends:
pn gnucash-docs <none>
pn python3-gnucash <none>
pn yelp <none>
Versions of packages gnucash suggests:
pn libdbd-mysql <none>
pn libdbd-pgsql <none>
pn libdbd-sqlite3 <none>
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 07:53:48PM +0100, Felix Geyer wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:55:13 +0100 =?utf-8?B?0L3QsNCx?=
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Package: gnucash
> > Version: 1:5.13-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders software unusable
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I installed gnucash in a clean sid chroot to try to chase another bug.
> > When attempting to change /any/ settings, all I get is
> > (gnucash:195096): dconf-WARNING **: 19:37:49.419: failed to commit changes
> to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or
> directory)
> > and they don't change.
>
> gnucash-common has the dependency chain dconf-gsettings-backend ->
> dconf-service -> default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus (aka dbus-x11)
>
> This is generated by dh_installgsettings and is basically what all packages
> using dconf have. It makes sure your user session has a session bus.
> Now if you are running it completely outside a user session you just need to
> make sure yourself that there is a session bus (e.g. by install dbus-x11).
> That's a very non-standard setup.
> We surely don't want to force dbus-x11 on all users.
Of which the two alternatives are, quoth
(https://packages.debian.org/sid/dbus-session-bus):
dbus-user-session
simple interprocess messaging system (systemd --user integration)
dbus-x11
simple interprocess messaging system (X11 deps)
where the former naturally doesn't work in a chroot.
While it's insidious that it doesn't work in a test environment /only/,
I tend to agree with your analysis.
Thanks,
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