On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 19:37, Robert G.Waycott wrote:
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> From: "Budd, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/04 Sun AM 09:02:14 EST
> To: "Gentoo-User (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] gnucash 1.8.8 emerge failure...
> 
> These are the last few lines of the gnucash emerge before it dies:
> 
> ./build-help-index \
> ./dbadd \
> ./help-search-index.db \
> ../help/C/gnucash-help/*.html \
> ../guide/C/gnucash-guide/*.html;
> Error writing data.
> 
> Any one have any ideas?
> TIA
> -Tracy
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> Can I hazard a guess that you are running the 2.6 kernel? From what I understand, 
> this is an issue with the 2.6 kernel ... erm, if I was at home, I'd be able to be 
> more specific. Being really vague here, it requires a patch to use db4 as opposed to 
> db2, I think ... Please don't shoot me if I just mistated that. I DO know that it is 
> a problem with db usage between the two kernel versions and what gnucash expects to 
> do. And, of course, I cannot really remember where I found this. I think it was on 
> Gentoo bugzilla or the forums.
> 
> Neuros.
> 
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> 'Esse quam videri.'
> To be, rather than to appear.

This isn't 2.6.x related. GnuCash hasn't built correctly for many
versions/ebuilds now. There's a running bug report on it, with some tips
on methods to get around the exact failure you're seeing here.

Sean


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