[GNC] gnucash 4.8 does not save settings

[Geert Janssens]

Before you go the flatpak route though, it may be worth figuring out why your settings are 
not saved. Are there any messages in your trace file ?

A known issue with saving settings is when you have applications installed in /usr/local. Or 
more specifically if there are schema files in /usr/local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/. In that case 
gnucash fails to find its own schema files in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/. This issue was 
fixed for gnucash 4.13.

Regards,

Geert



Op vrijdag 14 april 2023 15:51:08 CEST schreef Papa Oz:
> Hello, Carsten, and thanks for the reply.
> 
> Please forgive the anti-spam thing.  I had put @gnucash.org in my address
> book and I assumed all list-oriented traffic would come through their
> server.  Now that I see how it works I will probably have to change my
> registration to a different address that lacks the filtering.  Meanwhile
> you are "allowed".
> 
> All the files are within my home directory tree and I checked the
> permissions already.  There are some symlinks involved.  They work with 3.8
> but I suppose something might have changed in 4.8 such that they are a
> problem.
> 
> I did notice that the developers have gone the flatpak route.  I am not fond
> of flatpaks, which is why I mentioned deb in my post.  I suspect the
> sandbox aspect of flatpaks will give me some trouble sharing files between
> two systems.  But I guess I will have to add gnucash to my very small
> collection of flatpaks and figure out how to work out the sharing.
> 
> Thank you for your recommendation of 4.13.  I will give it a try.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten Hütter <Carsten.Huetter at gmx.de>
> Sent: Apr 14, 2023 7:17 AM
> To: Papa Oz <papaoz at earthlink.net>, <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] gnucash 4.8 does not save settings
> 
> Hi Papa Oz!
> 
> First of all: I'd recommend updating to a more current version both of
> GnuCash (latest 4.x is 4.14 from 2023-03-25) and Finance::Quote (latest is
> 1.54 from 2022-12-26). GnuCash 5.0 still has some issues.
> 
> The developers decided to publish the stable GnuCash Linux versions as
> flatpak, not as deb packages. So in order to get the cutting edge version
> without building from source code, you have to install flatpak. I'm on
> Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, only limited experience with other Linux flavors
> (switched from OpenSUSE sometime in the last century or millennium), but
> the following instructions should work more or less: $ sudo apt install
> flatpakThe latest GnuCash 4.x flatpak on code.gnucash.org is 4.13 from
> 2023-03-18, can be downloaded here:
> https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/gnucash-maint-C4.13-164-g207b
> 105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7.flatpakrefCan be installed with: $ cd
> ~/Downloads/GnuCash/  # Change to location of your flatpak file $ flatpak
> install gnucash-maint-C4.13-164-g207b105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7.flatpakref  #
> sudo not neededAnd started with: $ flatpak run org.gnucash.GnucashThere you
> go. Each flatpak package includes it's own current Finance::Quote.
> 
> To get the gnucash starter icon in your environment, you may need to install
> the Linux mint 21 cinnamon flatplak plugin: $ sudo apt install
> flatpak-plugin-cinnamonOn my system there are two flatpak GnuCash versions
> installed, which reside peacefully next door to each other: $ flatpak list
> --app
> Name             Application ID                     Version                 
>      Zweig                                                 Ursprung        
>        Installation GnuCash          org.gnucash.GnuCash               
> 4.13-164-g207b105b9c+         maint-C4.13-164-g207b105b9c-D4.13-7-g96300db7