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[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 4 April 2010, Maurice Carson wrote:
> have just installed gnucash BUT it would appear that to use it I ALWAYS
>  have to have an internet connection. Why should this be. is all the info
>  saved on a server somewhere
> I thought that this was a stand alone program
> thanks
> 
GnuCash doesn't really need an internet connection, but it seems to use a 
network connection to localhost. Localhost is a special network connection 
from a computer to itself. It never leaves the computer but is treated in all 
respects as a network connection anyway. Some firewalls block localhost 
connections. If that happens, gnucash apparently can't communicate with gconf 
a configuration utility used by gnucash.

There is a bug report for this issue:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510720
But no solution so far.

If this bug is what you experience, you can work around it by making sure your 
firewall software allows network access from the local machine to the local 
machine (weird as that may sound). Look for the term localhost.

Regards,

Geert