Default configuration files - permissions problem?

[Brad Milne]

I did a trace and found

/var/tmp/gconfd-brad/lock/ior"
 27615 gnucash-bin RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory

I've tried before to make the gconfd-brad folder more accessible and now
it's perms are wide open (drwxrwxrwx), but still nothing seems to get
written in it. Should I create something in there myself?



On 3/21/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Well, I would have made the permissions more 664, not 666.  *shrugs*
> Um, run gnucash under strace and see what's failing?
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting Brad Milne <mail_4brad at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
> > Thanks for the fast reply Derek
> >
> > I changed the perms on /etc/gnucash/config now...
> >
> >
> > $ cat etc/gnucash/config
> > ;;; -*-scheme-*-
> >
> > ;; Sample system-wide config file.  At the moment, it's empty.
> >
> > $ ls -l gnucash/
> > total 8
> > -rw-rw-rw-  1 root  admin  82  6 Feb 12:07 config
> >
> > But I still get the same messages. I've already tried fixing the
> permissions
> > and reinstalled gnucash. One slight variation from the norm is that I am
> > running this on a Mac using fink (on which it normally runs really
> well!).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Brad
> >
> >
> > On 3/21/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> >>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> >>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
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> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>
>