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

[boerner at t-online.de]

Hi,

I am experiencing the same issue coming from 4.6 and upgrading to 4.8 from an OpenSuse Repo.
One thing that I have in common with Klaus is that we both skipped 4.7

Indeed in Dconf I can find a new preference path /org/gnucash/GnuCash along with the old /org/gnucash.
However, gnucash 4.8 doesn't seem to take care of this path. Neither changes in my settings are reflected there nor changes done directly in Dconf (e.g. set time format to 24h) have any effect.
Moreover the default preference for the date format is ISO (2021-10-06), while gnucash uses the US format (10/06/2021) persistently.
So it appears to me that gnucash neather reads nor writes from/to the new preferences path in this situation.

@Klaus: Did you file that bug already? So it might be worth to add this information there.

Best
Thomas

Tue Oct 5 06:21:11 EDT 2021 Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
> Hi,
> 
> This likely means for some reason the preference migration hasn't run.
> 
> I'd like to figure out why if you're willing to work with me on debugging
> this. If so, please file a bug so we can track our research there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op maandag 4 oktober 2021 23:06:13 CEST schreef Klaus Dahlke:
> > 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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