Considering the timing of the GnuCash release and the Ubuntu 23.10
release, your build issues are likely due to dependency hell. I've had a
few frustrating build sessions where GnuCash needed an ever so slightly
older version of a library that wasn't in the new repos. (and this
cascaded to some of their dependencies as well) Your build errors should
be informative enough to figure out if that is the case here. (note,
when I had that problem it was also on a non-LTS .10 release) Sometimes,
this is resolvable with a bit of effort. Sometimes, it isn't worth the
effort.
I see you switched from Pop_OS! 22.04 to Ubuntu 23.10. Any reason not to
stick with Ubuntu 22.04? Maybe try that in a VM and see if you get the
same build issues. (you could just keep that VM for GnuCash until you
resolve the build problems in the host)
There is always flatpak. Of course, be aware of a few workarounds for
printing and file locations for settings. These should all be documented
on the GnuCash wiki.
Otherwise, some VM testing would be my approach, though considering how
you've described your OS transition and upgrades, as well as other OS
issues, I'd consider the nuclear option if I wasn't too far invested in
the current installation. A clean install has saved me weeks of
continued frustration more than once.
Regards,
Adrien
On 10/21/23 10:43 AM, Bryan B. wrote:
That is a good idea.
To give some context, without explaining everything: One week ago, I was
running the Ubuntu-based Pop_OS! 22.04. On that system, I had GnuCash built
using the "Building on Ubuntu" gnucash-wiki 22.04 script. I did not have
that issue at that time, nor the other GnuCash issue that I encountered
here:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2023-October/046795.html
I was having other issues with Pop_OS! (network issues that were needed on
my previous job), and at the recommendation of my previous employer I
decided to switch to mainstream Ubuntu.
When I switched to Ubuntu 23.10, this issue appeared, along with the issue
with gsettings.
Another issue that is worth mentioning, in case this happens to anyone
else, is that I got unlucky with the .iso file I used to install mainstream
Ubuntu. I somehow Googled my way into creating an .iso based off of 22.10,
which is a version of Ubuntu that is no longer supported. I installed on
22.10, then discovered my error. At that point, I upgraded to 23.10.
I also should mention another thing I just remembered. Whenever I open
dconf, even if I don't click anything, Terminator, a terminal app I use for
coding, stops working correctly: when I type text and approach the side of
the app window, three characters proceed off the edge of the screen before
the app's autowrapping feature kicks in and the following characters appear
on the next line down.
Also worth mentioning is that the issue with being unable to switch
gsettings background image on the desktop existed before installing the
dconf gui app.
Based on the feedback I am getting, it does seem that something deep within
ubuntu is likely broken and a complete reinstall from scratch is the only
reasonable way to fix this.
I do like the idea of rebuilding using a virtualbox 23.10 iso and getting
the system working first, before redoing everything. Thank you!
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