when i run gnucash and access the new user help file the program closes with no error or warning Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open gnucash 2.open the help 3. Actual Results: program closed with out warning Expected Results: opened the help documents or a wizzard but i don't know as i not used it b4
your 'emerge info' ? do you have 'doc' in your USE flags ?
I'm working with the version 1.8.4 of gnucash and have the same problem. The 'doc' useflag is not set, but when I set it an do a 'emerge -upD world', I get this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N F ] dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.1 [ebuild N ] dev-python/python-docs-2.2.3 [ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.1 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/graphviz-1.9 [ebuild N ] app-doc/qt-docs-3.1.2 [ebuild N ] app-doc/doxygen-1.3.3 [ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-1.0 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/pfaedit-030512 [ebuild N ] app-text/t1utils-1.25 [ebuild N ] app-text/dgs-0.5.10-r1 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtkDPS-0.3.3-r1 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/autotrace-0.31.1 [ebuild N ] app-text/mftrace-1.0.10 [ebuild N ] app-doc/kdelibs-apidocs-3.1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That doesn't contain anything gnucash related at first sight. another indication for that this problem is not related with the use flag can be found when running gnucash from the terminal and then requesting the online help in gnucash. I get the following error messages: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1067 (gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkCheckMenuItem' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcheckmenuitem.c: line 143 (gtk_check_menu_item_set_active): assertion `check_menu_item != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1152 (gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1067 (gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkCheckMenuItem' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcheckmenuitem.c: line 143 (gtk_check_menu_item_set_active): assertion `check_menu_item != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1152 (gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1067 (gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkCheckMenuItem' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkcheckmenuitem.c: line 143 (gtk_check_menu_item_set_active): assertion `check_menu_item != NULL' failed. Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkObject' Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 1152 (gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data): assertion `object != NULL' failed. gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit) aborting... Afgebroken (core dumped) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All except the last error messages are dumped at the startup of gnucash. The last one is shown when selecting the online-help from the main-window of gnucash. I get simillar problems when asking for some graphs and some reports.
I forgot my 'emerge info': Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb jpeg kde libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 ldap cdr 3dnow atlas doc gtk2 icc ifc imap ipv6 mozsvg plotutils rage128 -gif" There seem to exist some forum threads about this problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83968 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=94270 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=71130 All these threads conclude with the diagnose that there is a more general problem with gconfd & gnucash under gnome 2.4. There is a bugreported posted concerning this problem http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28787
Created attachment 21673 [details, diff] Wrapper script for GnuCash Just run this script and it should fix the problem with gconfd and let you run GnuCash with no problem. Doesn't it make sense to put this in portage and update the menu entries to point to the script instead of the GnuCash binary? I know it is a bit hackish, but at least that way when people emerge gnucash, it will work, and they won't have to google around trying to figure out how to fix the problem.
I found you can modify the /usr/bin/gnucash script using Martin's workaround for this issue as follows: #!/bin/sh PATH="/usr/libexec/gnucash/overrides:${PATH}" export PATH GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED="no" export GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED gconfd-1 & exec "gnucash" "$@" killall gconfd-1 This seems to solve the problem for now until they can fix the Gconf-1.0.9 issue. (see the following discussion http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gconf-list/2003-April/msg00022.html for more details)
part of the same problem *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28787 ***
