I tried a reboot also, didn't work.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Alexander Hansen
<alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>

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