[GNC-dev] Trouble with gsettings in GC 4.9
john
jralls at ceridwen.us
Wed Dec 29 11:22:41 EST 2021
You're building in a clean build directory, right?
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Dec 29, 2021, at 5:48 AM, Christian Wehling <c.wehling at posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> unfortunately, neither deleting the schema files after uninstalling nor
> installing them according to David's instructions helped.
> Fortunately, version 4.7 is still executable.
>
> Are there other possibilities I can try?
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
>
>
>
> Am Dienstag, dem 28.12.2021 um 08:10 -0800 schrieb john:
>> Christian,
>>
>> Try uninstalling 4.7 again, then make sure that /opt/share/glib-
>> 2.0/schemas and /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas contain no files whose
>> names begin with `org.gnucash', then reinstall 4.9.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>> On Dec 28, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Christian Wehling <c.wehling at posteo.de
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have tried all this:
>>> I started with a working version 4.7, did a 'sudo make uninstall'
>>> and
>>> then installed versions 4.8 and 4.9 with 'sudo make install' and
>>> 'sudo
>>> ninja install'. Unfortunately, both versions were unsuccessful.
>>>
>>> The Output from 4.8 and 4.9:
>>> * 16:29:33 INFO <gnc.gui > [gnc_load_app_icons] Path
>>> 19:
>>> /usr/share/pixmaps
>>> * 16:29:33 INFO <gnc.gui > [gnc_load_app_icons] Path
>>> 20:
>>> /opt/gnucash/share/gnucash/icons
>>> * 16:29:33 INFO <gnc.gui > [gnc_load_app_icons] Path
>>> 21:
>>> /opt/gnucash/share/icons
>>> * 16:29:33 ERROR <GLib-GIO > g_settings_new_full:
>>> assertion
>>> 'schema != NULL' failed
>>> * 16:29:33 WARN <gnc.app-utils.gsett>
>>> [gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr()] Ignoring attempt to access
>>> unknown
>>> gsettings schema org.gnucash.GnuCash.general
>>> * 16:29:33 ERROR <gnc.app-utils > GVariant*
>>> gnc_gsettings_get_user_value(const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion
>>> 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)' failed
>>> * 16:29:33 ERROR <GLib-GIO > g_settings_new_full:
>>> assertion
>>> 'schema != NULL' failed
>>> * 16:29:33 WARN <gnc.app-utils.gsett>
>>> [gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr()] Ignoring attempt to access
>>> unknown
>>> gsettings schema org.gnucash.general
>>> * 16:29:33 ERROR <gnc.app-utils > GVariant*
>>> gnc_gsettings_get_user_value(const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion
>>> 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)' failed
>>> * 16:29:33 ERROR <GLib-GIO > g_settings_new_full:
>>> assertion
>>> 'schema != NULL' failed
>>>
>>> I've also checked the dependencies and the version numbers of
>>> gsettings.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, I was able to get version 4.7 to work again with 'sudo
>>> make install'. I have been doing this in the same way since 4.5 and
>>> it
>>> has always worked until now.
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, dem 28.12.2021 um 09:10 +1000 schrieb
>>> davidcousens49 at gmail.com:
>>>> Christian,
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what the problem is but you could try using David
>>>> Whitings
>>>> script for
>>>> installation on Ubuntu 20.04 which is now in the wiki at
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building_On_Linux#Focal_Fossa_20.04_LTS
>>>> . It works
>>>> well with the only disadvantage it downloads a copy of the whole
>>>> git
>>>> repository
>>>> and not just the specific source files for a single version, OK
>>>> if
>>>> you don't
>>>> have any serious space issues.
>>>>
>>>> The following commands from the script will do the setup for
>>>> builing
>>>> and install
>>>> the dependencies:
>>>>
>>>> sudo apt -y update
>>>> sudo apt -y upgrade
>>>> sudo apt -y install git
>>>> sudo apt -y build-dep gnucash
>>>>
>>>> ## To build series 4 of gnucash on Ubuntu 20.04
>>>> sudo apt -y install libboost-program-options1.71-dev
>>>>
>>>> If you still want to work from the downloaded zip file of the
>>>> sources
>>>> just run
>>>> these first to make sure all the dependencies are loaded. I would
>>>> try
>>>> a fresh
>>>> download of the zipped file from Sourceforge as well. There was a
>>>> patch to the
>>>> 4.8 sources that affected the gsettings schemas from memory but
>>>> AFAIK
>>>> it was
>>>> incorporated in the 4.9 sources.
>>>>
>>>> If you run the following command ( I have also listed the output
>>>> from
>>>> it on
>>>> Linux MInt 20.2 which should be the same as Ubuntu 20.04) you
>>>> will
>>>> list the
>>>> packages affecting gsettings.
>>>>
>>>> dpkg -l | grep gsettings
>>>>
>>>> ii dconf-gsettings-
>>>> backend:amd64 0.36.0-
>>>> 1 amd64 simple
>>>> configuration storage
>>>> system - GSettings back-end
>>>> ii gsettings-desktop-
>>>> schemas 3.36.0-
>>>> 1ubuntu1 all GSettings
>>>> desktop-
>>>> wide schemas
>>>> ii libproxy1-plugin-
>>>> gsettings:amd64 0.4.15-
>>>> 10ubuntu1.2 amd64 automatic proxy
>>>> configuration
>>>> management library (GSettings plugin).
>>>>
>>>> It is ususlly a good idea on Linux to unistall the previous
>>>> version
>>>> befor
>>>> installing a new version. On Linux Mint (not sure Ubuntu is
>>>> exactly
>>>> the same but
>>>> I think it should be) if you right click on the icon in the menu
>>>> you
>>>> should get
>>>> a dropdown menu with uninstall as one of the options. It may
>>>> require
>>>> you to keep
>>>> the build directory which has the install_manifest.text used to
>>>> do
>>>> the
>>>> uninstall.
>>>>
>>>> David Cousens
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2021-12-27 at 16:57 +0000, Christian Wehling wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have compiled version 4.9 (Ubuntu 20.04) from sourceforge.net
>>>>> and
>>>>> have trouble with the "glib-schemas".
>>>>> The installation seemed to run without errors, but when I start
>>>>> Gnucash
>>>>> I get these outputs:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> * 16:48:51 INFO <gnc.gui > [gnc_load_app_icons]
>>>>> Path
>>>>> 14:
>>>>> /usr/local/share/gnucash/icons
>>>>> * 16:48:51 INFO <gnc.gui > [gnc_load_app_icons]
>>>>> Path
>>>>> 15:
>>>>> /usr/local/share/icons
>>>>> * 16:48:51 ERROR <GLib-GIO > g_settings_new_full:
>>>>> assertion
>>>>> 'schema != NULL' failed
>>>>> * 16:48:51 WARN <gnc.app-utils.gsett>
>>>>> [gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr()] Ignoring attempt to access
>>>>> unknown
>>>>> gsettings schema org.gnucash.GnuCash.general
>>>>> * 16:48:51 ERROR <gnc.app-utils > GVariant*
>>>>> gnc_gsettings_get_user_value(const gchar*, const gchar*):
>>>>> assertion
>>>>> 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)' failed
>>>>> [... and so on]
>>>>>
>>>>> If I run:
>>>>> glib-compile-schemas --strict /usr/local/share/glib-
>>>>> 2.0/schemas/
>>>>> /usr/local/share/glib-
>>>>> 2.0/schemas/org.gnucash.dialogs.business.gschema.xml:3:1 Fehle
>>>>> r in
>>>>> Zeile 3, Zeichen 1: <schema id='org.gnucash.dialogs.business'>
>>>>> wurde
>>>>> bereits angegeben. --strict was specified; exiting.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I had installed version 4.7 in the same way and it worked fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> What can I do?
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
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