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Bug 425060 - 'Cannot find default values' dialog always appearing.
'Cannot find default values' dialog always appearing.
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Chris Lyttle
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-04-01 05:18 UTC by John Troxler
Modified: 2018-06-29 21:30 UTC
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Description John Troxler 2007-04-01 05:18:48 UTC 
The 'Cannot find default values' dialog always appears when I run gnucash. Going through Setup and selecting the 'Update search path' option does not help, although 'Install into home directory' does allow this dialog to go away.
Comment 1 Christian Stimming 2007-04-02 08:22:02 UTC 
Which OS/distribution? How did you install gnucash - from source tarball or from a package?
Comment 2 John Troxler 2007-04-03 01:59:27 UTC 
I'm running gentoo linux 2.6.19, and I installed gnucash through portage. Let me know what software you need version info for
Comment 3 Andrew Schulman 2007-05-12 04:39:01 UTC 
I also have this problem, although in my case the dialog will only appear once a day I believe. I'm running GnuCash 2.0.5 using the Debian package in Etch.

I filed a Debian bug report about this:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408511.

One time when the dialog came up I followed the instructions to resolve the problem manually from the command line, and got what seemed like a useful error message, but unfortunately I didn't save it, and now I can't reproduce it until the dialog comes back again (i.e. tomorrow).  I'll try to get more information about that and post it here.

Thanks,
Andrew.
Comment 4 Andrew Schulman 2007-06-25 07:09:16 UTC 
I've found a workaround for this bug.  As root I ran

for ff in /usr/share/gconf/schemas/*gnucash* ; do gconftool-2 --config-source=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --install-schema-file $ff ; done
pkill gconfd # since gconftool-2 --shutdown was ineffective

After I did this the annoying "Can't find default values" prompt has gone away.

Note that at least on my Debian host, the script update-gnucash-gconf wants to do this, but it's hardcoded to install the schemas to /etc/gconf/schemas, which doesn't exist.  In Debian the right location seems to be /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults.
Comment 5 Andrew Schulman 2007-06-25 07:15:55 UTC 
Sorry, the last paragraph above should have read:

Note that at least on my Debian host, the script update-gnucash-gconf wants to
do this, but it's hardcoded to install the schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas, which
doesn't exist.  In Debian it seems that the schemas have been moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas.

The Debian bug report for this is at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408511.
Comment 6 Des Dougan 2008-01-23 03:48:34 UTC 
I'm seeing this on a new installation of SuSE 10.3, running gnucash-2.2.2-0.rauch.2.

I followed the instructions in comment #4, above, and GnuCash now starts normally.
Comment 7 Geert Janssens 2012-08-07 16:27:23 UTC 
Thank you for your report and sorry I'm late to the party.

Both GnuCash 2.0.5 and 2.2.2 are no longer supported, so I'll close the bug as obsolete. Should this still happen with GnuCash 2.4.11 or future releases, please feel free to reopen the report.
Comment 8 John Ralls 2018-06-29 21:30:48 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425060. Please update any external references or bookmarks.