problem with first use

[Kevin T. Broderick]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:01 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:56:50 -0800
> From: Christian & Deborah Henderson <xnh at brokenman.com>
> Subject: problem w/first use
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> I just installed gnucash for the first time, and am having some
> trouble. I was able to get it to run (OS X 10.3.7) in X11, but every
> time I try to run the tutorial or generate a report, I get this error
> in the X11 window:
>
>> aborting...
>> Abort trap
>> Indy:~ xn$ /sw/bin/gnucash
>> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
>> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
>> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
>> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
>> qif-file:read-file : unknown Security slot G .. continuing anyway.
>>
>> gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to launch configuration server:
>> Failed execute child process (No such file or directory)
>
> Can anyone help me decipher that and figure out what I should do? I'm
> pretty new at command-line stuff.
>
> Thank you!
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> Message: 16
> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:39:44 -0500
> From: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> Subject: Re: problem w/first use
> To: Christian & Deborah Henderson <xnh at brokenman.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 01:07, Christian & Deborah Henderson wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick help. Please pardon my ignorance, but how do I
>> launch it?
>>
>> I typed gconfd-1 into the x11 window, but that didn't do it.
>
> What error did you get when you did this?
>
> I expect that you did not get one ... it just never came back to a
> prompt / appeared to "hang" / &c.  In that case, gconfd-1 is running;
> I'm always annoyed at programs that never output _anything_.
>
> It may be more effective to start it in the background with:
>
>   $ gconfd-1 &

For the original poster, how are you checking to see if gconfd-1 is 
running?  The 'correct' way (in my mind, at least; there are others) 
would be a
$ ps axuw | grep gconf
When I do this prior to running gnucash, it looks like:

titaniumbook:~ kbroderick$ ps axuw | grep gconf
kbroderi 27797   0.0  0.0    18644    100 std  R+    1:07PM   0:00.00 
grep gconf

Indicating that the only process running with 'gconf' in its name at 
all is "grep gconf", the search process I just started.

When I do it after running gnucash (i.e. after $ gnucash &, which 
triggers the background start of gconfd-1), it looks like:

titaniumbook:~ kbroderick$ ps axuw | grep gconf
kbroderi 27812   0.0  0.1    31128   1224 std  S     1:07PM   0:00.07 
/sw/bin/gconfd-1 12
kbroderi 27820   0.0  0.0    18644    100 std  R+    1:11PM   0:00.00 
grep gconf

In this case, the first line of output indicates that /sw/bin/gconfd-1 
is running as user kbroderi with pid 27812.

As far as having the correct packages installed via fink, I took a look 
at the [lengthy] dependency list, and gconf is one of the packages.  A 
'dpkg -L gconf' reveals that it does, as one might expect, include 
/sw/bin/gconfd-1.  So if you can't start gconfd-1 from the commandline, 
making sure you have the gconf package installed would probably be a 
good next step.

Personally, I'm running gnucash on OS X 10.3.7 via fink and have had 
very few problems since the initial install, which was a bit 
complicated because I installed fink at the same time; I seem to recall 
that, after much gnashing of teeth and repeated update commands via 
fink, things finally sorted themselves out.

Kevin Broderick, Bolton Valley IT Department
kbroderick at boltonvalley.com / 802.434.6807 (V) / 802.329.6807 (F)