[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Ken Heard]

On 2018-08-20 12:44, Colin Law wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have discovered that I do not have a file ~/.config/dconf. Perhaps the
>> absence of such a fine has prevented my from changing any of my gnucash
>> preferences. So I suppose my next step is somehow to create one, yes?
>>
>>
> Well since the proposed fix was to delete it and let dconf recreate it then
> no.  It should have been created automatically.  What does
> ps -aux|grep dconf
> show?  I suspect it will show that dconf-service is not running.

It returns the line

"ken  5074  0.0  0.0  14004   964 pts/2    S+   17:45   0:00 grep dconf"

> Also can you reboot then run
> cat /var/log/syslog | grep dconf
> to see if there are any dconf messages in the log

"sudo cat /var/log/syslog|grep dconf" returns nothing.

> and
> ls -al ~/|grep \\.config
> to check the ownership and settings on .config

I am not sure what you are looking for with this command, but it simply 
returns the following line:
"4.0K drwx------  9 ken  users 4.0K Jul 22 11:17 .config/"

If what you are looking for in a list of the directories and files in 
~/.config, here it is.

total 48K
    0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ken users   26 Apr 22 11:39 chromium -> 
/home/ken/mozilla/chromium/
    0 -rw-r--r-- 1 ken users    0 Aug 20 18:19 dotconfig.list
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 ken users 4.0K Jul 17 13:26 galculator/
4.0K drwx------ 2 ken users 4.0K Aug 17 19:43 gtk-2.0/
4.0K drwx------ 2 ken users 4.0K Jun 10 21:21 gtk-3.0/
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 ken users 4.0K Aug 18 21:59 libreoffice/
4.0K drwx------ 2 ken users 4.0K Apr 19 14:05 menus/
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ken users  987 Jun 28 17:50 mimeapps.list
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ken users  217 Jun 28 17:49 mimeapps.list.J2FELZ
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 ken users 4.0K Jul 17 13:13 SpeedCrunch/
4.0K -rw------- 1 ken users  635 Jul 22 11:17 user-dirs.dirs
4.0K -rw------- 1 ken users  641 Apr 18 17:50 user-dirs.dirs~
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 ken users    5 Apr 18 12:58 user-dirs.locale
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 ken users 4.0K Jun  3 21:40 vlc/

Regards, Ken