[GNC] 4.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 not saving preferences

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Tim,

It's by luck (and some randomness in order of processing files) that this build works. The 
contents of the schemas directory has both the obsolete and the new schema files. To 
prevent this issue from happening again in the future, you should remove all files that start 
with "org.gnucash" but keep those that start with "org.gnucash.GnuCash".

You can move your source and build directories to a more convenient location if you like. You 
may have to rerun the build, but that's fine.

You can even still run "make uninstall" now in your 4.6 build directory followed by "make 
install" in the 4.9 build directory to formally sort this out.

Regards,

Geert Janssens

Op dinsdag 21 december 2021 14:07:20 CET schreef Tim Kallmer:
> David,
> You are right. I now know it was not related to switching from .bz2 to .gz
> formats.
> 
> I tried the same procedure on my laptop GC (also 4.6), using the .gz for
> 4.9 initially, and had the same "fresh-start" behavior and GC not saving my
> preferences or working file.
> 
> Once I reverted to 4.6 and then installed 4.9 again, it works.
> 
> Geert,
> By installing "over" my previous 4.6, I mean I go through the build
> procedure using the same /home/<user>/.local installation location. Both
> versions were built from the source files. My initial 4.6 build was using
> ninja. This 4.9 - 4.6 revert - 4.9 again process was with make. Would using
> ninja previously and then changing to make be the cause?
> 
> All of my versions have been the self-built GC. I was not switching from
> flatpak. I did not have any other versions remaining other than the 4.6 I
> had been using.
> 
> I have never ran 'uninstall' before installing a newer version, but I will
> try to remember to do that next time. That must have been my problem. My
> understanding is that I should keep the source and build folders for next
> time. Can I move these folders from their parent (the Downloads folder) to
> a more convenient place and have the uninstall work correctly?
> 
> The schemas folder contents is now as follows, with a working 4.9:
> 
> total 484K
> -rw-rw-r-- 1  66K Dec 20 19:22 gschemas.compiled
> -rw-r--r-- 1 105K Dec 20 19:51 org.gnucash.GnuCash.deprecated.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  12K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.business.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 6.9K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.checkprinting.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  777 Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.commodities.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 1.1K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.export.csv.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  571 Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.flicker.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  15K Dec 20 19:51 org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  872 Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.csv.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 6.5K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.generic.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 4.3K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.hbci.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1  464 Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.ofx.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 2.5K Dec 20 19:51
> org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.qif.gschema.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 2.0K Dec 20 19:51