Someone mentioned recently, here, that Gnome is not currently maintained. Something like ticket-by-ticket, bug-by-bug fixes only.
On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 11:45 +1000, Pete Crite wrote: > Hi, I've just updated GnuCash from 2.2.5_0 to 2.2.7_1 on MacPorts > (PPC), and am having some problems. I enquired at the GnuCash IRC > channel, and was told that it was probably a ORBit/GConf problem, and > to enquire here. Also, after lurking on IRC for c. 24 hours, two other > people came in with the same problem, so I think this might be quite > common? This update also included gconf from 2.22.0_0 to 2.24.0_0 and > orbit2 from 2.14.12_0 to 2.14.16_0. > > Every time I open GnuCash, I get two error windows. One says: "The > configuration data used to specify default values for GnuCash cannot > be found in the default system locations. Without this data GnuCash > will still operate properly but it may require some extra time to > setup. Do you wish to setup the configuration data?." The other says: > "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information > for gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work > properly." When I get details on the latter, it says: "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: dbus- > launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch requested, but > X11 support not compiled in." > > This happens every time I startup now (after this update), even after > I setup the preferences anew. Strangely, the preferences don't even > seem to stick. For example, when I select "negative amounts in red", > this does not occur in my accounts window. Also, other "on-the-fly" > preferences don't stick, such as the confirmation window I get when > changing the reconciliation state of transactions. When I select, > "don't warn me again", this is not remembered, and the windows will > still pop up. > > It's also taking a ridiculous amount of CPU power, and is extremely > slow, which I guess is related, possibly to locked files?? > > Any help would be much appreciated. I'm a bit of a X11/terminal > newbie, so please be gentle! > > Cheers, > Pete. > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
