GnuCash 2.2.0 under Windows (problems -- much more information)

[John Roberts]

FYI, I'm having the "failure to lauch" issue running as administrator.  I 
don't think it's a permissions issue, since the load process seems to 
progress to subsequent steps after very long delays.

My hunch is that there's a problem with communication bewteen 
gnucash-bin.exe and gconfd-2.exe, which eventually times out... then 
subsequent attempts at communication also time out.  And the whole thing 
basically sits there for many hours.


>From: Mike or Penny Novack <stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com>
>Reply-To: stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com
>To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>Subject: Re: GnuCash 2.2.0 under Windows (problems -- much more 
>information)
>Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:04:20 -0400
>
>Thanks to Vahur describing exactly what he was running.
>
>While I had done some minimal testing while logged in as administrator I
>had not set up a FULL parallel to the user environment. I went back and
>retested after first copying over (to the admin data area) a directory
>containing a valid set of books. Under these conditions I had no
>difficulty using "edit preferences" to do things like turning off "tips
>of the day", turning off the "splash screen" so open directly in that
>set of books, changing the period for "autosave", etc. Went back into my
>user login and tried the same things, no dice.
>
>I have not verified yet if this is a permissions problem per se (what
>happens if I temporarily give the user "admin" privilege) -- it could
>also be a consequence of the user not having "admin" rights the first
>time gnucash was opened (perhaps some directories/files were never
>created). I have to experiment, can't just look, as I am not really a
>"Windows person".
>
>It is from my perspective a serious problem (not greatly affecting my
>PERSONAL use -- but could I report "ready" for running under Windows?).
>It also explains WHY possibly not previously reported. An extremely high
>percentage of home XP users consider that because they are the only user
>on the computer, why not be with "admin" rights all the time. Entirely
>possible that no beta testing was done under XP without "admin" rights
>(and as already noted, this might be a situation where if the first time
>was with "admin" rights, could then subsequently use the app as "user"
>without problems.
>
>Michael
>
>PS:  I'll soon be busy for a few days and so may not be able to report
>on some of these further tests till next week. Since I already used
>gnucash in my (our) user login, I'll need to set up a temporary "test"
>user on the system to check on the "first time" possibilities.
>
>
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