On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:15 PM, David Kamholz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've had some issues with the recent updates to gtk+2 (2.14.3) and
> gconf2 (2.24.0). In particular, gconf2 seems to have entirely stopped
> working -- the daemon does not start up through dbus and if I manually
> invoke /sw/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 it also imply dies without an error
> message. This wreaks havoc with most gnome apps of course... so I
> downgraded gconf2 and all was well. But I still had an issue with
> gnucash2, which still failed to launch apparently because it was
> unable to load icons necessary for the splash screen -- there was a
> one line error, which I didn't save, for which I duly apologize. But I
> can say that once I downgraded gtk+2 to 2.12, gnucash2 worked once
> again. So I realize this is somewhat vague, but I'd like to at least
> request that others test gnucash2 on the latest packages to see if
> there may be problems, and also to point out that there may be some
> difficult to debug problems gconf2 (akh on #fink says it works fine
> for him).
>
> Dave
It was reported on IRC this morning that the issue was believed
actually to be due to a misbuild in dbus.
09:12 < dmacks_away> The spew of errors from new gconf such as
http://paste.lisp.org/display/68548 is the
result of a
broken build of dbus. That package apparently
fails to
detect something and silently omits x11 support.
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