"Cannot find default values" dialog always appearing

[Mark Johnson]

I used to have this same problem, until I fixed my build script.  To 
read more, you can search the archives (probably -devel, at least March 
& October of 2006) for these posts.  However, here is the relevant 
section of my build script:
# see http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf
export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1
make install DESTDIR=$PKG
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
   echo make install failed >&2
   exit $?
fi
unset GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL

You need to set that environment variable during the make install phase 
for the gconf keys to be installed correctly.  I have found some other 
projects that I have needed to build in the same way.  I can't think of 
them at the moment.

Mark


Michael DeBusk wrote:
> This is an info post, not a request for assistance.
>
> GnuCash 2.2.5 r17141M, built from source tarball from
> http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ ,
> with OFX enabled, but not online banking,
> running on Ubuntu 7.10 under Gnome.
>
> EVERY TIME I started GnuCash, I'd get an error message stating that it
> "Cannot find default values" and offered to re-run setup. I'd accept the
> defaults and click through the dialogs and it would be fine.
>
> I Googled around and found Gnome bug 425060, filed just over a year ago.
> Andrew Schulman posted a workaround here:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425060#c4
>
> This worked to solve my problem, but it should be known that the first
> line of the posted script reads as follows on my system:
>
> for ff in /usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/*gnucash* ;
>
>