[gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Tim Allingham]

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I've been having an interesting issue with Gnucash since emerging, it
keeps throwing up the attached error every startup. I've checked
the .gconf.path file its asking me to modify, and the values its asking
for are there.

I've attached an image of the wizard it runs to repair the error but it
has no effect unfortunately, I would prefer if possible to use the
system-based config rather then installing to my home directory.

Any suggestions much appreciated, its been frustrating me for over a
week now



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xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults

Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Bob Sanders]

Tim Allingham, mused, then expounded:
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated, its been frustrating me for over a
> week now
> 
> 

Shouldn't - xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf

be something like - xml:readwrite$/home/deserted/.gconf

or - xml:readwrite$~/.gconf

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Tim Allingham]

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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:26 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
> Shouldn't - xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
> 
> be something like - xml:readwrite$/home/deserted/.gconf
> 
> or - xml:readwrite$~/.gconf
> 
> Bob
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Unfortunately no such luck, good thought but pretty sure $(HOME) is a
variable pointing to the home folder of the user who ran the command
(similar to the way ~ works)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Bob Sanders]

Tim Allingham, mused, then expounded:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:26 -0700, Bob Sanders wrote:
> > Shouldn't - xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
> > 
> > be something like - xml:readwrite$/home/deserted/.gconf
> > 
> > or - xml:readwrite$~/.gconf
> > 
> > Bob
> > -  
> 
> Unfortunately no such luck, good thought but pretty sure $(HOME) is a
> variable pointing to the home folder of the user who ran the command
> (similar to the way ~ works)

Sorry.  Still, $(HOME) looks a bit weird, but I've no clue what XML is
defining here.  I tend to expect variables to be something lile - $HOME.
Nice, simple, long history of use.

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Robert Cernansky]

On Fri, 18 May 2007 02:11:06 +1000 Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:

> I've been having an interesting issue with Gnucash since emerging, it
> keeps throwing up the attached error every startup. I've checked
> the .gconf.path file its asking me to modify, and the values its asking
> for are there.
[...]

It's a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158013). Gnucash
2.0.5 does not insert config entries into
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree*.xml.

To "fix" this, emerge gnucash-2.0.1 and then upgrade to 2.0.5.

Robert


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[OT] Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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On Thursday 17 May 2007, Bob Sanders <rsanders@sgi.com> wrote about 'Re: 
[gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config':
> Tim Allingham, mused, then expounded:
> > Unfortunately no such luck, good thought but pretty sure $(HOME) is a
> > variable pointing to the home folder of the user who ran the command
> > (similar to the way ~ works)
>
> Sorry.  Still, $(HOME) looks a bit weird, but I've no clue what XML is
> defining here.  I tend to expect variables to be something lile - $HOME.
> Nice, simple, long history of use.

That's the same variable.  Use braces disambiguates when you mean when the 
variable is substituted in odd places.  For example "$NAME's clothing" is 
different from "${NAME}'s clothing" in perl because single quote is an old 
way of doing scope resolution.

Even in bash, you can experience ambiguity.  ${DIR_WITH_END_SLASH}subdir is 
very different from $DIR_WITH_END_SLASHsubdir.  Also, $HOME (and ${HOME}) 
are actually older than the ~ notation and ~ not immediately followed by a 
valid login name is always just a shortcut for ${HOME}.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] problems with Gnucash config

[Tim Allingham]

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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 20:48 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2007 02:11:06 +1000 Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I've been having an interesting issue with Gnucash since emerging, it
> > keeps throwing up the attached error every startup. I've checked
> > the .gconf.path file its asking me to modify, and the values its asking
> > for are there.
> [...]
> 
> It's a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158013). Gnucash
> 2.0.5 does not insert config entries into
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree*.xml.
> 
> To "fix" this, emerge gnucash-2.0.1 and then upgrade to 2.0.5.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robert Cernansky
> E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk
> Jabber: HS@jabber.sk
> 

Thanks for that Robert, had a quick loog at the bugs list but couldn't
dig that one up.

Looks like I'll just have to live with it until I can be bothered
rolling it out with gcc-3.x as g-wrap 1.3.4-r1 won't compile under
gcc-4.1

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] problems with Gnucash config

[Tim Allingham]

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On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 00:05 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 20:48 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 May 2007 02:11:06 +1000 Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been having an interesting issue with Gnucash since emerging, it
> > > keeps throwing up the attached error every startup. I've checked
> > > the .gconf.path file its asking me to modify, and the values its asking
> > > for are there.
> > [...]
> > 
> > It's a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158013). Gnucash
> > 2.0.5 does not insert config entries into
> > /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree*.xml.
> > 
> > To "fix" this, emerge gnucash-2.0.1 and then upgrade to 2.0.5.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Robert Cernansky
> > E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk
> > Jabber: HS@jabber.sk
> > 
> 
> Thanks for that Robert, had a quick loog at the bugs list but couldn't
> dig that one up.
> 
> Looks like I'll just have to live with it until I can be bothered
> rolling it out with gcc-3.x as g-wrap 1.3.4-r1 won't compile under
> gcc-4.1

Gah my own  stupidity astounds me sometimes, recalled the usefulness of
emerge --resume --skip-first, and gnucash 2.0.1 built fine with g-wrap
1.9.x solved the problem wonderfully, cheers for that Robert :)

Tim Allingham

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