Unspecified fatal error on bootup

[Derek Atkins]

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:48:43 pm Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Joe Hughes <joesvilla at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Just installed gnucash.
>> > Double-clicked desktop icon.
>> > gnucash-bin.exe wants to access the internet.
>> > I let it do this once.
>> > Closed the program.
>> > Double-clicked icon again.
>> > Same thing: guncash-bin.exe wants to access the internet.
>> > I tell it no.
>> > Then I get the "Unspecified fatal error encountered; aborting" message.
>> > "This program has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
>> > way. Contact support team."
>> >
>> > Why must this file access the internet every time I boot the program?
>> > Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> ORBit.
>>
>> -derek
>
> As a Linux user, I have heard of ORBit as a library that I need to install, 
> but I have no idea what it does.  Reading what the devel package put in 
> /usr/share/doc gets me nowhere.  (According to Google, it is an "Object 
> Request Broker.")  Because I have a constant connection to the Internet, I 
> have probably never had occasion to see the message that the OP saw.
>
> What is it actually requesting?  About the only thing that GnuCash needs from 
> the Internet is Finance::Quote, if it is being used.

ORbit is CORBA.
There's a "bug" in the Win32 ORbit where it goes off onto the network
for something or other.  Search bugzilla, I don't recall all the details.

> Doug.

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-derek

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