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

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Thomas,

Klaus hasn't filed a bug yet. If you can, please do.

Regards,

Geert

Op woensdag 6 oktober 2021 16:25:41 CEST schreef 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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