Excellent, thanks for working that out. Specifying 127.0.0.1 works for me too. I have updated the issue [1]. That means that for me the flatpak is a working solution. However, given the fact there has been absolutely no feedback from the maintainer on any of this I am not particularly hopeful that the flatpak will be kept up to date, any more than the snap package has been.
Colin [1] https://github.com/flathub/org.gnucash.GnuCash/issues/17 On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 05:03, Plutocrat <plutoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well I was bored at work (which isn't to say I didn't have any to do ...), so > I thought I'd fiddle around with the gnucash flatpak I had installed on my > laptop to see if I could figure out what was going on. > > I personally use the XML file, so I installed mysql-server, struggled to > reset the root password and then created a gnucash user and database. Tried > to save to host=localhost, db=gnucash, user=gnucash, password=xxxxxx and > experienced the same problem as previously detailed on this list. > > Cue an hour of digging through documentation on flatpak, > http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions-reference.html > > This looked promising, but didn't work, throwing an error. > flatpak permission-show org.gnucash.GnuCash > > This flag looked like it might work, but made no difference. > --share=network (Giving network access also grants access to all host > services listening on abstract Unix sockets (due to how network namespaces > work) > > Eventually I found the manifest.json file in /usr/lib/flatpak/blah/blah and > determined that it did actually have network access anyway. And /home/user/ > directory access, for the record. > > I was poring through mysql logs, and I saw 'Listening on 127.0.0.1', so I > thought I'd give that a try on the off-chance ... and it worked! Database > saved OK, and I could work off that one. > > So, apparently changing hostname from localhost to 127.0.0.1 was the magic > charm. Anyone else want to give it a try and report back? > > P. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
