Gkhtml + Gconf + Gnucash
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Jan 24 11:10:12 CST 2004
This is a known problem.. Make sure you have gconfd-1 running
before you start gnucash.
-derek
Hamza Khan-Cheema <hamza at legend.co.uk> writes:
> I am having a problem getting gtkhtml to work or to recognise that a gconf server
> is running.
>
> I have a debian system (testing) It all started off when I installed gnucash. I
> tried to print an invoice and my business address would not show up on the right
> side of the document. I did some diging around and found out that i needed
> gtkhtml 1.1 to fix this problem. However debian does not have this version (i
> could not find it) so I complied the source for gtkhtml1.1. I then linked the
> libgtkhtml file for the old version to version 1.1 (using a symbolic link).
>
> I thought great this will fix the problem, however It did not. Now what happens
> is whenever i try to do anything related to gtkhtml it crash's gnucash (like make
> my invoice, which is why all this started) and says :
>
> "gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely
> cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running,
> but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once,
> you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit"
>
> Now i thought it had something to do with my altering the symlink. So i
> uninstalled gnucash and libgtkhtml20 (which is lingtkhtml version 1.0.4-5.1). I
> then compiled gnucash from the source and made sure that it was using the gtk1.1
> files.
>
> However even after that i got the same message as above. gconfd-2 is running at
> the moment and i have installed (I think all of the files). However I also have
> gconfd-1. So i tried to run that but it made no difference. I even tried to
> compile gtkhtml without gconf support but then it fails in the make procedure
> stating it cannot find something to do with gconf.
>
> I would appreciate any help as i have tried all i can think of.
>
> Regards
> Haz
>
>
>
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