Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.4.0 on Snow Leopard.

[David Bergum]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 0:22, John Ralls wrote:

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> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
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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.  
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> 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.
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> 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.

>psg dbus
  263   101     1   0   0:00.00 ??         0:00.00 /sw/bin/dbus-daemon --system
  502   396   193   0   0:00.01 ??         0:00.01 /sw/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session
  502 41691     1   0   0:00.00 ??         0:00.00 /Library/Gnucash-2.4/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --config-file /Applications/GnuCash 2.4.0/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/dbus-1/session.conf

These are the dbus processes I find.  psg is an alias that greps ps output.  I don't know anything about dbus or why Fink would have it.  I use fink to get Xemacs and a few other unix env things I use.

Dave



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