crashes - gconf

[Derek Atkins]

This is a FAQ.
You need to run "gconfd-1.bin" by hand.

-derek

MacSerial <macserial at spymac.com> writes:

> I have some problems with gnucash crashing when I want to use a report or use the new user tutorial.
> I have installed gnucash using Fink on mac os x 10.3.8.
> First I got: gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process (No such 
> file or directory).
> I read that I had to start gconfd-1 first, so I tried that, but it wasn't on my system, so I installed gconf via Fink.
> This time it found gconfd-1, but then I got this error: 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'm stuck and can't find the solution to that one. I hope someone can help.
>
> Matthieu
>
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