When I start gnucash (1.8.8) I see the splash screen and it informs me of the things that it is loading. This dissappears, and as it is about to open the main window I get this error message: 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... Aborted ps shows that gconfd is indeed running, but this error pops up even if I kill gconfd, or even from a clean reboot with no gconfd running. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -march=k6 -s" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe -march=k6 -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow X alsa arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tetex tiff truetype voodoo3 x86 xinerama xml2 xmms zlib"
I've had the same problem, and I workedaround it as described in bug 30793.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28787 ***
