[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Adrien Monteleone]

Ken,

You might also want to investigate this page, particularly the section on locks. I doubt you’ll find one for GnuCash, but somehow that system might have an overall lock on it.

https://developer.gnome.org/dconf/unstable/dconf-overview.html

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 18, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 15:19, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> I think Ken mentioned GnuCash 2.6.15 in Debian Stretch in the OP.
> 
> I missed that.  Thanks.
> 
> Ken, dconf not working can be caused by corrupted dconf config files.  This can happen if there is power fail apparently.  Try this in a terminal after closing all apps down.
> mv .config/dconf  .config/dconf.save
> which will move that folder out of the way,  dconf should recreate it.  Log out and back in again (this may not be necessary in fact, not sure), then try dconf-editor again and see if it saves things now.
> You may well find that other apps that use dconf will have gone back to default values.
> 
> If doing this messes things up then you can always restore the orginal using
> mv .config/dconf .config/dconf.regenerated
> mv .config/dconf.save .config/dconf
> If the first command says it can't find .config/dconf then that is ok, it just means it had not been recreated.
> 
> Colin
>