[GNC] Gnucash 4.8: doesn't read or store config

[David H]

Klaus,

This from the release notes may be relevant ?  On Windows after installing
4.7 I had a couple of windows flash up quickly, to quickly to read what
they said and then a new blank Gnucash file opened.  I had to use file open
to open my usual xml Gnucash file....

The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 4.7, the eighth release in
the stable 4.x series
Compatibility Notice

In order to allow flatpak users to share preferences with installations
outside of the sandbox we need to change the preference path from
/org/gnucash to /org/gnucash/GnuCash. This release of GnuCash does that and
it will automatically migrate existing preferences. It does not, however,
continue to write preferences to the old path and it runs the migration
only once. If you go back and forth between GnuCash 4.7 and an older
versions you'll have two sets of preferences, one for GnuCash 4.7 and later
and another for GnuCash 4.6 and earlier. This includes the file history
list and last-opened file.

Cheers David H.

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 07:07, Klaus Dahlke <kdahlke at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> I run gnucash 4.5 on ArchLinux and compile gnucash from the sources.
> Yesterday I wanted to upgrade/install gnucash 4.8 by:
>
> cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/klaus -G Ninja ..
> ninja
> ninja install
>
> All went smoothly, but when starting gnucash, the warning/error came up:
> no book found (or similar), i.e., gnucash starts but no accounts, register
> etc are there. I then went to File -> Open' and opened the postgres
> database. The data were read, but not displayed as expected: currency was
> USD, date format was US,  no register color etc. I changed some of
> Preferences as setting the register color scheme to gnucash default,
> currency to Er, date format etc. But after exiting and restarting gnucash,
> none of the preference settings where save. The warning message and teh
> look and feel was exactly the same as right after compile.
>
> I then switched back to gnucash 4.5 by compiling it from the sources by
> the above method and all works fine again.
>
> Did I miss something in the installation procedure or is it worth filing a
> bug?
>
> Thanks
> Klaus
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