Can't run any reports

[Derek Atkins]

Odd..

You may need to run gconfd-1 by hand before running gnucash.  I don't
know why it's not starting on its own.  But try:

  gconfd-1 &
  ps auxww | grep gconfd
  gnucash &

See if that helps?  Check the FAQ -- this is in there.

-derek

Quoting Steve Moeller <smoeller001 at comcast.net>:

> Hi,
> It looks like I have both GConf (ver 1.0.9-16) and GConf2 (ver 2.10.0-4)
> installed.  I searched for gconf (locate gconf) and after many pages of
> output, saw that gconf is installed at /usr/bin/gconfd-1.
>
> I also looked for a running gconf process and found:
>
> $ ps ax | grep gconf
> 2180 ?        S      0:04 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5
> 25596 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep gconf
>
> I stopped the gconfd-2 process shown above (kill 2180) and ran gnucash,
> running a report still causes gnucash to abort.  BTW, after I ran
> gnucash, i saw that the gconfd-2 process was running again.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas and thx for your help.
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 20:16 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Please be sure to CC gnucash-user on all replies..
>>
>> [ 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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