Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[John Ralls]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:59 PM, David Bergum wrote:

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> On Jan 19, 2011, at 20:41, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:21 AM, David Bergum wrote:
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>>> John, might there be some kind of conflict with gconftool-2 installed by Fink in /sw/bin?  That is what my search paths find.
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>>> Dave
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>>> On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:59, David Bergum wrote:
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>>>> Oops, yes the listserv ate the attachments.
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>>>> I first get an offer from Gnucash-bin:
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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)
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>>>> Didn't see any additional info in the syslog.
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>>>> I am running from an administrative process.
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>> I wouldn't have thought so, but if gconftool is getting invoked it isn't from the Gnucash bundle. Do you have a ~/.MacOS/environment.plist that adds /sw/bin to $PATH? 
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> No, I don't have any ~/.MacOS directory.  The one in /sw/bin is the one found in terminal tcsh.  I didn't think about the env being different in Aqua.
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> I didn't find any other gconftool-2 in my system.
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> I haven't found any access issues.  

Hmm. Something's strange, then, because programs launched from Finder (which includes launching from the Dock) don't get the environment from your shell, so Gnucash shouldn't be able to find /sw/bin/gconftool-2.

I guess a more important issue for you is why Gconf isn't starting up correctly. Did you run the "Update Dirs" applet in the dmg? Is dbus getting started? Ooh, there's one: Is there a dbus-daemon or gconfd instance from Fink running? That might cause trouble.

Regards,
John Ralls