Bug#1120485: gnucash: missing dbus-x11 hard dep for dbus-launch

[Felix Geyer]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:55:13 +0100 =?utf-8?B?0L3QsNCx?= 
 wrote:

> Package: gnucash
> Version: 1:5.13-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders software unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I installed gnucash in a clean sid chroot to try to chase another bug.
> When attempting to change /any/ settings, all I get is
> (gnucash:195096): dconf-WARNING **: 19:37:49.419: failed to commit changes 
to dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or 
directory)

> and they don't change.

gnucash-common has the dependency chain dconf-gsettings-backend -> 
dconf-service -> default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus (aka dbus-x11)


This is generated by dh_installgsettings and is basically what all packages 
using dconf have. It makes sure your user session has a session bus.
Now if you are running it completely outside a user session you just need to 
make sure yourself that there is a session bus (e.g. by install dbus-x11).

That's a very non-standard setup.
We surely don't want to force dbus-x11 on all users.

Cheers,
Felix

Bug#1120485: gnucash: missing dbus-x11 hard dep for dbus-launch

[наб]

Package: gnucash
Version: 1:5.13-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders software unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I installed gnucash in a clean sid chroot to try to chase another bug.
When attempting to change /any/ settings, all I get is
  (gnucash:195096): dconf-WARNING **: 19:37:49.419: failed to commit changes to 
dconf: Failed to execute child process “dbus-launch” (No such file or directory)
and they don't change.

  http://packages.debian.org/file:dbus-launch ->
  /usr/bin/dbus-launch  dbus-x11 -> 
  # apt install dbus-x11
worked and I was able to edit them.

It's a reasonable assertion, I think, that an inability to configure
gnucash makes it unusable. Thus, grave.

Best,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 
'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii  gnucash-common 1:5.6-1~bpo12+1
ii  guile-3.0  3.0.8-2
ii  guile-3.0-libs 3.0.8-2
ii  libaqbanking44 6.5.3-1
ii  libboost-filesystem1.74.0  1.74.0+ds1-21
ii  libboost-locale1.74.0  1.74.0+ds1-21
ii  libboost-program-options1.74.0 1.74.0+ds1-21
ii  libboost-regex1.74.0 [libboost-regex1.74.0-icu72]  1.74.0+ds1-21
ii  libc6  2.36-9+deb12u10
ii  libcairo2  1.16.0-7
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl   0.73.06-2+b1
ii  libdate-manip-perl 6.91-1
ii  libdbi10.9.0-6
ii  libfinance-quote-perl  1.54-3
ii  libgcc-s1  12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-02.42.10+dfsg-1+deb12u2
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.74.6-2+deb12u7
ii  libgtk-3-0 3.24.38-2~deb12u3
ii  libgwengui-gtk3-79 5.10.1-2
ii  libgwenhywfar795.10.1-2
ii  libhtml-tableextract-perl  2.15-2
ii  libhtml-tree-perl  5.07-3
ii  libicu72   72.1-3
ii  libofx71:0.10.9-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0 1.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-01.50.12+ds-1
ii  libpython3.11  3.11.2-6+deb12u6
ii  libsecret-1-0  0.20.5-3
ii  libstdc++6 12.2.0-14+deb12u1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-02.48.1-2~deb12u1
ii  libwww-perl6.68-1
ii  libxml22.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1
ii  perl   5.36.0-7+deb12u2
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages gnucash recommends:
pn  gnucash-docs 
pn  python3-gnucash  
pn  yelp 

Versions of packages gnucash suggests:
pn  libdbd-mysql
pn  libdbd-pgsql
pn  libdbd-sqlite3  

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