[GNC] Problems upgrading to 4.8a

[Phil Wolff]

   On 9/11/22 13:02, Geert Janssens wrote:

   Op zaterdag 10 september 2022 19:49:52 CEST schreef Phil Wolff:

   > On 9/10/22 08:34, Geert Janssens wrote:

   > That is really odd and again suggesting your gnucash is not
   configured as

   > per default. We'll have to find out where this comes from...

   >

   > Can you provide the result of commands

   >

   > alias gnucash

   > type gnucash

   > ls -l $(type gnucash)

   >

   > dellbert at dellbert:~$ alias gnucash

   > bash: alias: gnucash: not found

   > dellbert at dellbert:~$ type gnucash

   > gnucash is /usr/bin/gnucash

   > dellbert at dellbert:~$ ls -l $(type gnucash)

   > ls: cannot access 'gnucash': No such file or directory

   > ls: cannot access 'is': No such file or directory

   > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142088 Feb  9  2022 /usr/bin/gnucash

   >

   Ok, these were to ensure our basic assumption is correct. You're
   effectively running /usr/bin/gnucash and not some alias or link to
   another location.

   > Also can you start gnucash once as follows:

   >

   > gnucash --log "gnc.app-utils=debug"

   >

   > You can leave out the name to your data file. It will reduce the
   amount of

   > messages in the trace file.

   >

   > After having run, can you filter the trace file for messages coming
   from

   > gnc.app-utils and post them here?

   >

   > That's a way to find out where gnucash looks for the config-user.scm
   file...

   >

   > Filtering reduced line count from 943 to 815 😕

   >

   I'm sorry about that. I could have asked to filter more aggressively
   (but it was very late here when I wrote my last mail). This is the info
   I was looking for:

   > [gfec_try_load] looking for /etc/gnucash/config * 09:00:08 DEBUG

   >
   <gnc.app-utils>

   >

   > [gfec_try_load] looking for
   /home/dellbert/.config/gnucash/config-user.scm

   > * 09:00:08 DEBUG

   >
   <gnc.app-utils>

   >

   > [gfec_try_load] trying to load

   > /home/dellbert/.config/gnucash/config-user.scm * 09:00:08 DEBUG

   >
   <gnc.app-utils.gsettings>

   >

   These lines show that the config-user.scm file is found. No idea why
   this wouldn't print the value of XDG_DATA_DIRS to your gnucash trace
   file. But if needed we can debug that later. Let's first follow the
   other possible clue below.

   <snip>

   >

   > As these early queries fail, no migration is started. And in general

   > considering most queries fail, I think no preferences are ever kept
   across

   > gnucash restarts. You could experiment with this by setting a
   preference to

   > non-default in gnucash. Restart gnucash and check the preference
   again ?

   >

   > I've done that - any changes I make are lost on a restart.

   >

   Ok, that confirms gnucash has an issue with finding settings schemas in
   some way.

   > And if so can you use the command

   >

   > grep org.gnucash.general $(strings <file>)

   >

   > on each of these (replace <file> with the proper path to the

   > gschemas.compiled file)

   >

   >

   >

   > A rather long list containing zero occurences of gnucassh

   >

   Unfortunately my command was bad (late night...) :(

   Can you retry with this command:

   strings ./share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled | grep
   org.gnucash.general
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$ cd /usr/local
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr/local$ strings
   ./share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled | grep org.gnucash.general
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr/local$

   And, for good measure,

   dellbert at dellbert:/usr/local$ cd /usr
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$ strings
   ./share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled | grep org.gnucash.general
   ((iiii))org.gnucash.general.report
   /org/gnucash/general/report/
   org.gnucash.general.report.pdf-export
   org.gnucash.general
   org.gnucash.general.report
   org.gnucash.general.register
   /org/gnucash/general/
   (i)org.gnucash.general.finance-quote
   /org/gnucash/general/finance-quote/
   org.gnucash.general.register
   /org/gnucash/general/register/
   (s(yau))org.gnucash.general.report.pdf-export
   (s).path/org/gnucash/general/report/pdf-export/
   general/org.gnucash.general
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$

   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$ cd /usr
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$ strings
   ./share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled | grep
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general
   (b)org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.report
   /org/gnucash/GnuCash/general/report/
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.report.pdf-export
   (i)org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.finance-quote
   /org/gnucash/GnuCash/general/finance-quote/
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.report
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.register
   /org/gnucash/GnuCash/general/
   (i)org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.report.pdf-export
   (s).path/org/gnucash/GnuCash/general/report/pdf-export/
   general/org.gnucash.GnuCash.general
   org.gnucash.GnuCash.general.register
   /org/gnucash/GnuCash/general/register/
   dellbert at dellbert:/usr$

   Incidentally, I have a Scheduled Transaction due today (9/12) that
   wasn't automatically created. Using Actions/Scheduled
   Transactions/Since last run did create it, as well as one for 9/14
   which is configured for 2-days-in-advance creation, so that much is
   working as intended.

     Regards,

     Geert