I know that dbus has recently been reworked a bit. Just a shot in the dark, but maybe try a reboot.
music...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. > > I am using the standard OS X terminal. Just to verify, I just tried a > new window: no luck. For good measure, I tried > > source /sw/bin/init.sh > > both in the standard terminal, as well as in an X11 terminal, but the > exact same problems happened. > > Any further thoughts? > > -- > Dave Musicant > > On Mar 19, 2009 6:29am, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 19, 2009, at 6:11 AM, Dave Musicant wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to get gnucash2.2.9-1 via fink unstable working, on OS X > > > > 10.4. It was working fine, but I updated packages recently, and it's > > > > experiencing trouble. Gnucash will start, but it doesn't recognize any > > > > previous configuration. It runs terribly slowly, and I get error > > > > messages dumped to the terminal window that look like: > > > > > > > > Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/show_splash_screen: 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: > > > > launchd's env var DBUS_FINK_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET does not exist)Failed > > > > to load key /apps/gnucash/general/account_separator: 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: > > > > launchd's env var DBUS_FINK_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET does not exist)Failed > > > > to load key /apps/gnucash/general/auto_decimal_point: 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: > > > > launchd's env var DBUS_FINK_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET does not exist) > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on how to proceed? I've tried a completely brand new > > > > vanilla fink install, but that didn't seem to solve the problem > > > > either. > > > > > > > > For full disclosure, here's more info: I was originally also receiving > > > > error messages that looked like: > > > > > > > > "Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide > > > > a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is > > > > loaded!" > > > > > > > > but with a suggestion from the package maintainer (thank you!), that > > > > error was repaired by: > > > > > > > > fink reinstall dbus > > > > > > > > fink rebuild gconf2 > > > > fink reinstall gconf2 > > > > fink reinstall gnucash2 > > > > > > > > ... but I'm still left with the "Failed to load key" errors. > > > > > > > > If anyone knows how to repair this, I'd be appreciative. Thanks! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Dave Musicant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Where are you starting from? The regular OS X terminal or an X11 > terminal? The error looks like your fink environment isn't getting > processed. > > > > > > > > If you're on the regular OS X terminal, try starting a new window to > make sure the updates that were made got processed. > > > > > > > > If you're using an X11 terminal (I'll assume you're using Apple's > X11 since you didn't specify that), then you're probably suffering > from the long-standing issue that Apple's X11 doesn't generally > process your user startup scripts. Manually running > > > > > > > > source /sw/bin/init.sh > > > > > > > > (assuming you're using bash as your shell) before starting any > applications should solve this. For something more automatic, you can > make sure that whatever mechanism you use to run the terminal uses > "xterm -ls" instead of just "xterm" to run it. (If you're not using > xterm then you'll need to use whatever syntax your terminal supports > to run a login shell) > > -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
