[GNC] locale setting

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hello Jose,

Am 02.05.2018 um 23:22 schrieb Jose Lello:
> GnuCash 2.6.12 - rev ed11f6d+ on 2016-04-18
> 
> Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia

You should search for a more recent version because you are missing two
years of bug fixing.

> Instead of the euro simbol, I get ???. I tried:
> 
> ~$ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF8 LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 /usr/bin/gnucash


> (process:18886): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL'
> failed
> 
> (process:18886): gnc.core-utils-WARNING **: Couldn't properly override
> environment variable "LANGUAGE". This may lead to unexpected results

Something went wrong here.
Are the respective language packages installed?

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py", line 3, in <module>
>     from gnucash import *
> ImportError: No module named gnucash
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.38
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] attached to process.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] checking environment variable
> PIPELIGHT_SILVERLIGHT5_1_CONFIG.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] searching for config file pipelight-silverlight5.1.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from
> '/home/jlello/.config/pipelight-silverlight5.1'.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from
> '/etc/pipelight-silverlight5.1'.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] trying to load config file from
> '/usr/share/pipelight/configs/pipelight-silverlight5.1'.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:unknown] sandbox not found or not installed!
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:silverlight5.1] using wine prefix directory
> /home/jlello/.wine-pipelight.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:silverlight5.1] checking plugin installation - this might
> take some time.
> [install-dependency] wine-silverlight5.1-installer is already installed
> in '/home/jlello/.wine-pipelight'.
> [install-dependency] wine-mpg2splt-installer is already installed in
> '/home/jlello/.wine-pipelight'.
> fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 1.9.7 is a testing version
> containing experimental patches.
> fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when
> filing bug reports on winehq.org.
> wine: DLL not found.
> err:wineboot:ProcessRunKeys Error running cmd
> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winemenubuilder.exe -a -r" (1157)
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] embedded mode         is on.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] windowless mode       is off.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] linux windowless mode is off.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] force SetWindow       is off.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] window class hook     is on.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] strict draw ordering  is off.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] replaced API function CreateWindowExA.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] replaced API function CreateWindowExW.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] replaced API function TrackPopupMenuEx.
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] replaced API function TrackPopupMenu.
> fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW (0x7b8d21a7, 0x7b970120,
> {aa087e0e-0b35-4e28-8f3a-440c3f51eef1}, 1, 0x71f478, (null), (null),
> 0x7b970120): stub
> fixme:ntdll:EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW   register trace class
> {aa087e0e-0b35-4e28-8f3a-440c3f51eef1}
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] init successful!
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] OpenGL Vendor: Intel Open Source
> Technology Center
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM
> x86/MMX/SSE2
> [PIPELIGHT:WIN:silverlight5.1] Your GPU is in the whitelist, hardware
> acceleration should work.
> [PIPELIGHT:LIN:silverlight5.1] using thread asynccall event handling.
> openjdk version "1.8.0_162"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_162-8u162-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.162-b12, mixed mode)
> ^Cfixme:console:CONSOLE_DefaultHandler Terminating process 8 on event 0
> fixme:advapi:UnregisterTraceGuids deadbeef: stub

I don't know, why PIPELIGHT, wine, ntdll ... apear here. AFAIK they are
not related to gnucash

> -------------------
> 
> An instance of GnuCash opened with the problem fixed, but opening
> GnuCash from the Menu showed the same problem again

To get the settings in the instance started by the menu, you need to
adjust the gnucash.desktop or preferred the gnucash environment file.

> Thank you,
> 
> José

Regards
Frank