On 12/16/07 5:43 PM, David Reiser wrote: > In your case, I would start by rebooting. Not because I know it's > necessary, but because I'd know for sure that I'd killed all the > gnome processes on my system. > > Then open a terminal window and type: > > sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/gconfd-dnewman > sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/orbit-dnewman > sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/mapping-dnewman > > (you could check first to see if you even have those last two > directories...) > > Then type > > update-gnucash-gconf > > and see if it will now complete properly.
The last directory didn't exist, but deleting the first two did the trick, even without a reboot. The update went fine, and now gnucash2 starts without complaint. many thanks! dn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users