Gnucash access to internet when starting up

[Richard Ullger]

Hi Nathan,

> You don't mention whether you re-downloaded the exe or verified the 
> checksum. I'd like to verify that you have the correct files. The 
> specific files affected are the three files attached to comment #98 of 
> the bug report.
> libORBit-2-0.dll at 327,168 bytes
> libORBitCosNaming-2-0.dll at 18,432 bytes
> libORBit-imodule-2-0.dll at 39,424 bytes
> These files (with these sizes) should exist in your C:\Program 
> Files\gnucash\bin directory.
> 
> Could you confirm that these are the files you have on your 
> installation? If they are, then it appears that this bug still needs 
> more attention. If not, you can either re-download the installer or take 
> the above three files from comment #98 and use those.

I re-downloaded the gnucash-2.2.2-setup.exe file and installed it after 
having uninstaled gnucash first. I checked the md5 hash against 
gnucash-2.2.2-setup.md5 and got a match.

I can also confirm that the size of the files libORBit-2-0.dll, 
libORBitCosNaming-2-0.dll and libORBit-imodule-2-0.dll are as specified 
above and are in the C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin directory.

Gnucash is not displaying any errors when starting up but still tries to 
connect to the internet. As I stated in my reply to Beth, this is in 
most cases the ip address of my isp's pop server but occaisionally it 
differs. The last time I started gnucash it tried to connect to an ebay 
server.

There is mention in the bug report that when gnucash is denied access to 
the external ip address that problems are then experienced when making 
changes to the configuration. I take it that this refers to changes to 
the preferences via Edit->Preferences. If this is the case, I have not 
experienced any problems in this area. I have managed to make changes to 
the preferences without receiving any errors. In fact I have not yet 
experienced any detrimental effects by denying gnucash-bin.exe access to 
the internet.

I've noticed that there are two entries in the Zonealarm program table 
for gconfd-2.exe. The one in ...gnucash\bin (98283 bytes) requires 
localhost access but the one in ...gnucash\libexec (440290 bytes) 
doesn't. This may not be a problem.

Regards,

Richard.