Cannot save settings in gnucash on Ubuntu 18.04
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnucash (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
On a small number of systems, changes made in the Preferences dialog are not saved.
In .xsession-errors the following is seen
Xsession: X session started for ken at Tue Aug 21 10:32:09 EDT 2018
localuser:ken being added to access control list
dbus-update-
/usr/bin/
The reason appears to be that dbus-x11 is not installed. Installing it fixes the problem. This is only seen rarely as normally other packages will have pulled in dbus-x11.
It seems that in the gnucash package dbus-x11 is only declared as Suggests. I think it should probably be a hard dependency.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnucash 1:2.6.19-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 22 20:50:31 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-21 (1401 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20141017)
SourcePackage: gnucash
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-06-17 (66 days ago)
| Colin Law (colin-law) wrote | #1 |
| gregrwm (gregrwm) wrote | #2 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gnucash (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| gregrwm (gregrwm) wrote | #4 |
| gregrwm (gregrwm) wrote | #5 |
i am running gnucash(2.6.12) in a xenial container. gnucash works by and large, but preferences cannot be changed. i just found this, and just installed dbus-x11. it installed alone, didn't pull in anything additional. i stopped and started the container and fired up gnucash. preferences still cannot be changed.