"Cannot find default values" dialog always appearing

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Michael DeBusk <michael at nlphilia.com> writes:

> 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.

Are you root when you run "make install"?

Why are you building this yourself instead of using the Ubuntu packages?

> 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.

That means that it cannot find your default values.  What do
you have in ~/.gconf.path ?

> 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* ;

That difference is only because of your --prefix.  Note that we highly
recommend you NOT install into /usr/local.

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-derek

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