When I click on "Aide --> Tutoriel et guide des concepts" (excuse my french), gnucash simply crashes. When I launch it from command line, I have the following messages : (...) 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... Abandon (core dumped) I only noted here the messages from the moment when I click on "tuto..." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Alt+F2 2. gnucash[enter] 3. Click on the menu "aide --> tutoriel et guide des concepts" (help --> tutorial and (?) Actual Results: Crash, gtkhtml error (see above)... Expected Results: Show me that f... help. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/confi g/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr /share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://212.219.247.21/sites/www.i biblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.20/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://21 2.219.247.19/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibibl io.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dga directfb d oc dvd encode esd faad fbcon flac foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libgda libwww linguas _fr mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl sla ng speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype v4l video_car ds_rage128 wmf wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
Confirmed with the gnucash-1.8.8: Clicking "Open the new user tutorial" option in the 1st dialog window causes the error noted above. Is this a missing dependancy required to show the help file? Or is ORBit TCP networking the clue?
Okay - problem solved. Merging gconf-1.0.9 fixed it. This is definitely a portage problem: Because I had gconf-2* [slot 2] installed, updates to gconf-1* [slot 1] were never shown.
Not true, because of the slots you will be notified of new versions/updates for each slot. If this is still reproduceable/a problem - please re-open.
