Default configuration files - permissions problem?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Mar 21 05:18:59 EDT 2007


Quoting Brad Milne <mail_4brad at yahoo.co.uk>:

> I messed with my permissions across my whole machine (long story - and long
> night!), but now I think I've got them back pretty much as they should be.
> But, when I try to run gnucash now I get two error boxes, one saying:
>
> <box>
> Cannot find default values
> The configuration data used to specify default values for GnuCash cannot be
> found in the default system locations....
> </box>

This would be /etc/gnucash/config

> and the other:
>
> <box>
> An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
> </box>

This MIGHT be gconf-related..

>> From what I've been able to find out, it looks like a gconf problem (?). I
> can set the default values again using the wizard it prompts to use, but
> then I get exactly the same messages again next time I start up.
>
> Any ideas?

Fix your permissions?  Or better yet, reinstall?

> Thanks

-derek

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