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Bug 666849 - Non-privilleged user first run trouble
Non-privilleged user first run trouble
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Windows
2.4.x
Other Windows
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: John Ralls
Geert Janssens
: 669392 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-26 04:05 UTC by Justas Ferin
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:04 UTC
See Also:
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Description Justas Ferin 2011-12-26 04:05:58 UTC 
Non-privilleged user can't run GnuCash after installing with another (admin-rights) account. Program has to be run with admin rights first and only after that it is possible to run it as a user.

Windows XP SP3 Professional Edition
Comment 1 John Ralls 2012-01-28 21:35:56 UTC 
I've managed to replicate this and to understand what's wrong: The problem is that Guile needs to catalog SLib, which involves writing a file in c:\Program Files\gnucash, which of course an unprivileged user wouldn't be permitted to do.

I'll have to figure out how to get the installer script to do that.
Comment 2 John Ralls 2012-01-29 07:00:09 UTC 
r21911 provides such a script. I hope I made it in time for the nightly tonight!
Comment 3 John Ralls 2012-01-29 15:15:13 UTC 
I did make it in time, so please try

http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/2.4/gnucash-2.4.10-svn-r21911-setup.exe 

to see if it resolves the problem for you.
Comment 4 Justas Ferin 2012-01-30 06:10:36 UTC 
Thank you very much! It works!
Comment 5 Geert Janssens 2012-02-08 09:29:52 UTC 
*** Bug 669392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 John Ralls 2017-09-24 22:41:53 UTC 
Reassign version to 2.4.x so that individual 2.4 versions can be retired.
Comment 7 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:04:19 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=666849. Please update any external references or bookmarks.