Can't update preferences and can't get rid of Welcome dialog in Gnucash 2.4.7 (OS X 2.6.8)

[John Ralls]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:12 AM, prl wrote:

> Thanks, John.
> 
> On 2/08/11 0:30, John Ralls wrote:
>> OK, good. How about ~/.gconf and ~/.gconfd? Do they belong to you and have 700 permissions?
> As I said in my original post, the setup/first run of Gnucash did not create ~/.gconf. I also said that I had created a ~/.gconf manually with 0700 permissions and that that did not help with the problem. The permissions on the ~/.gconfd that was created by the Gnucash setup/first run (or something) were correct:
> 
> Cambyses:~ prl$ ls -ld .gconf .gconfd
> drwx------  2 prl  admin   68 31 Jul 12:46 .gconf
> drwx------  3 prl  admin  102  2 Aug 21:02 .gconfd
> Cambyses:~ prl$
> 
>> Is there a dbus-daemon running? (ps -A | grep dbus) (Gnucash should start it on launch; it stays running until you reboot or the next Gnucash launch which kills it and starts a new one.) Regards, John Ralls 
> Yes, dbus-daemon is started by Gnucash:
> 
> Cambyses:~ prl$ ps ax | grep dbus
>  734   ??  Ss     0:00.00 /Library/Gnucash-2.4/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --config-file /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/session.conf
>  754 s000  U+     0:00.00 grep dbus
> Cambyses:~ prl$

Sorry, I misunderstood that from your original.
None of my ideas for replicating the problem are working; No matter what I do, GConf creates its keys in ~/.gconf.
You could try running Gnucash from Terminal. Maybe some extra error messages will show up. (Make sure you have a big enough scrollback buffer or redirect the error stream so that you don't lose the top of the output.) 

Regards,
John Ralls