GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

ravisghosh · 2006-10-26 04:37:10

Hi friends,

I installed gnucash and its working fine. However, whenever I start gnucash, it gives me a message:

Cannot find default values

The configuration data used to specify default values for gnucash cannot be found in teh default system locations. without this data gnucash will still operate prperly but it may reque some extra time to setup. do you wish to setup the configuration data?

Then if i click "skip," my gnucash file is loaded. When I click "setup" it takes me to the configuration thing and gives me the option to choose method

[code]
1. Update search path
This method will modify the file .gconf.path in your home directory. it will add the gnucash instal directory to this path so that gnucash can find its default settings and their descriptions.

2. Install into home directory

This method wll install the gnucash default settings and descriptions into the .gconf directory within your home directory. the disadvantage to this method is that future updates to gnucash will not update your local settings to add in new keys.
[code]

I chose the first method and it updates the search path and adds the following line in ~/.gconf.path
[code]
xml:readwrite:$(HOME)/.gconf
xml:readonly:/opt/gnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
[/code]

But any when i start gnucash, its the same annoying stuff..

Any help guys.

Thanks in advance

Ravi S Ghosh

Snowman · 2006-11-02 01:32:18

I get same behaviour for option 1. Option 2 works though. From a quick google, it seems to be an issue with gconf/schema. I'll look into it.

Snowman · 2006-11-02 08:32:46

I think I have fixed it. I'll need to do more tests though. If everything works, there's gonna be a fixed package today or tomorrow.

Snowman · 2006-11-03 01:42:16

I've committed a new package. Let me know if it works or still has problems.

ravisghosh · 2006-11-06 17:37:37

snowman, i guess there is a bug or something with second release 2.0.2-2. It was working fine, but yesterday when I started gnucash, I was amazed to find that 1 year worth of data was gone and now I have data only till December 2005. Startup was normal. There was no problem at all. Also, in few accounts, data older than Dec 2005 is also not there. Do you have any idea bout this. I'm clueless. how can all the entries go just like that..

Snowman · 2006-11-08 00:08:22

ravisghosh wrote:

snowman, i guess there is a bug or something with second release 2.0.2-2. It was working fine, but yesterday when I started gnucash, I was amazed to find that 1 year worth of data was gone and now I have data only till December 2005. Startup was normal. There was no problem at all. Also, in few accounts, data older than Dec 2005 is also not there. Do you have any idea bout this. I'm clueless. how can all the entries go just like that..

I'm sorry to hear about that .

I don't know what could've happen. I don't use gnucash. Are you sure the data was there (with 2.0.2-2) before you realised that it was gone? Maybe the data is still on your hard drive but gnucash can't find/display it.

I've practically done no changes to gnucash 2.0.2-2. All I did was rebuild g-wrap against guile 1.8 and then rebuild gnucash against that rebuilt g-wrap. I only changed the location of the gnucash man pages so that shouldn't affect the user's data.

A few days ago, I've uploaded a gnucash 2.0.2-3 to fix the problem that you described in the 1st post of this thread. That version has more changes in it. You could back up your data and upgrade to gnucash 2.0.2-3 to see if it makes a difference.

I don't really know what more to suggest.

Snowman

Arch Linux

#1 2006-10-26 04:37:10

GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

#2 2006-11-02 01:32:18

Re: GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

#3 2006-11-02 08:32:46

Re: GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

#4 2006-11-03 01:42:16

Re: GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

#5 2006-11-06 17:37:37

Re: GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

#6 2006-11-08 00:08:22

Re: GNUCASH STARTUP PROBLEM (solved)

Board footer