Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[David Bergum]

John, might there be some kind of conflict with gconftool-2 installed by Fink in /sw/bin?  That is what my search paths find.

Dave

On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:59, David Bergum wrote:

> Oops, yes the listserv ate the attachments.
> 
> I first get an offer from Gnucash-bin:
> 
>  The configuration data used to specify default values for
>  GnuCash cannont be found in the default system locations.
>  Without this data GnuCash will still operate properly but it
>  May require some extra time to setup.  Do you wish to setup
>  the configuration data?
> 
> I click setup, and there are several options to add search paths to gconf.paths, which
> is already updated.  Regardless which path I take, I end up with gconftool-2 throwing 
> some kind of error: 
>  "Failed to execute child process 
>  "gconftool-2" (No such file or directory)
> 
> Didn't see any additional info in the syslog.
> 
> I am running from an administrative process.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 23:48, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 8:08 PM, David Bergum wrote:
>> 
>>> After I upgraded to 2.4.0 on Mac OS, upon starting I get the  notification:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I go through the setup with any number of options and always end up with the error similar to:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Then GnuCash starts and seems to operate normally.  Any ideas on how to correct this?  I haven't found any thread dealing with this and haven't found anything in the FAQ.
>> 
>> I imagine that you had attachments in there illustrating the notification and error, but the list server seems to have eaten them. Could you try again, perhaps with plain text?
>> 
>> (On context, perhaps it's that you run from a not-administrator account. Try launching Gnucash from an account with administrator privs so that it can create a link in /Library to point to the application bundle.)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
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