Can't run any reports

[Derek Atkins]

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[ sorry for the resend -- I'm clearly tired and didn't notice that it
  wasn't sent to the list in the first place..  ]

I kind of figured this was the problem.  This error means that you couldn't
start gconfd-1.  Are you sure that you have the GConf package installed
on your system?  (Note that this is different that gconf2).

-derek

Quoting Steve Moeller <smoeller001 at comcast.net>:

> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply.  I should have thought to run it from a terminal,
> I was running it from the Gnome menu.
>
> I ran it from a terminal as you suggested and then tried to run a
> Transaction Report.  Here is the output from the terminal.
>
> $ gnucash
>
> gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Configuration server couldn't be
> contacted:
> Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
> IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
>
> aborting...
> Aborted
>
> I am not familiar with the Configuration server.
> Let me know if you have any suggestions.
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 15:29 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:11:44 -0500
>> Steve Moeller <smoeller001 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I am new to GnuCash.  I have setup some basic accounts and imported my
>> > checking account info from my bank into GnuCash (QIF file).  So far so
>> > good.
>> > Now I want to run some reports.  I select Reports from the main menu,
>> > and then select a report to run (Account Summary, Transaction
>> > Report, ...etc.) and GnuCash closes.  There is no error message, it just
>> > closes.  I am running GnuCash ver. 1.8.12.  I am running GnuCash under
>> > Fedora 4 Linux with all the latest Fedora updates.  Can you help me with
>> > this problem?
>>
>> run gnucash from a console, if youdon't already, and send us the 
>> console output when it crashes.
>>
>> A
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Steve
>> >
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