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

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Hi Geert,

For your info if it will help diagnose problems on other Linux systems. As far
as I cn tell GunCash 4.8 is reading the preferences when they exist on Linux
Mint 20.2. I up graded from 4.6 via a patched version of 4.7 and then to 4.8
with a further patch suggested by John. Both 4.7 and 4.8 built from scratch from
the downloaded tarball. These still show up under .local/share/gnucash/ for the
books reports etc and .config/gnucash for the gtk style sheets.  The file
modifications times and dates indicate changes (I deliberately changed a few
setting exited and then restarted and then changed them back). I am presuming
the /org/gnucash/GnuCash translates to these locations during installation as I
cannot find any such directories on my computer.

David

On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 09:29 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 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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