problem loading gnucash on colinux

[bn]

Thanks Derek, got it now.  The problem turns out to
be:

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y at colinux:~$ gnucash
The font
"-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"
does not support all the required character sets for
the current locale
"LC_CTYPE=en_US;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=C;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"
  (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
  (Missing character set "ISO8859-1")
Fatal Error: gnucash_style_set_register...(): Cannot
load fallback font:
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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I used 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' in the root console
to generate en_US ISO-8859-1, but still get the same
error inside my user environment in gnome.  Do I need
to set the user locale to this separately, and if so,
how?  Don't quite know my way around yet.

Bahman


   

--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Quoting bn <aval57 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > 2. gnucash files seem to be all in place, although
> > /etc/gnucash/config only
> > reads:
> >
>
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> > ;;; -*-scheme-*-
> >
> > ;; Sample system-wide config file.  At the moment,
> > it's empty.
> >
>
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> 
> Okay -- just making sure it exists...
> 
> > 3. Running gnucash from the console fails due to a
> > lack of display, (which
> > is what the gnome gdm provides).  Other apps, e.g.
> > gimp, inkscape also fail
> > similarly at the console but run fine from the
> gnome
> > desktop.  I understand
> > that I can configure a display from the console
> and
> > launch the apps, but
> > since the graphic gnucash startup screen appears
> in
> > gnome, I doubt the
> > problem has anything to do with the display.
> 
> UM, that's NOT QUITE what we mean by "run it from
> the console"
> You should start up a terminal window and run
> gnucash from there.
> I.e., start gnome, login to gnome, run the gnome
> Terminal, and
> then start gnucash from the gnome terminal window.
> 
> > 4. Running gnucash in gnome shows the graphic
> startup
> > window, with the
> > following messages:
> >
> >   Loading modules... (several names follow)
> >   Checking Finance::Quote...
> >   Loading configs...
> 
> I presume you mean these messages show up in the
> splash screen, right?
> That's not what we need to know.
> 
> > 5. The startup window closes, and nothing happens.
>  No
> > error messages
> > either in gnome, or on the root console.  System
> > monitor shows no gnucash
> > process.
> 
> Please run gnucash from a terminal.
> 
> > I'll look into what config ought to read, though
> again
> > any help is greatly
> > appreciated.
> 
> -derek
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media
> Laboratory
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> Board  (SIPB)
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