Bug#303687: Dumps core on start

[Steve Langasek]

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severity 303687 grave
tags 303687 sid
thanks

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:36:19PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > I disagree most strenuously.  Up until this version, gnucash worked *fi=
ne*
> > without gconf; now, I can't pull gnucash up on a remote display at all
> > because of this bletcherous dependency.  I think this is a grave bug in
> > gtkhtml, and I don't think this version of gnucash should be allowed in=
to
> > testing until this problem is resolved.
> This is crazy.  gnucash is a gnome-1 program, and works fine on gnome
> 1.

> Gnome-2 claims to support gnome-1 programs, and does, but a mistake
> was made in a gconf2 change.  The mistake has a simple patch, approved
> by upstream, to fix the gconfd-2 daemon to preserve the necessary
> backward compatibility.

> Moreover, playing BTS tag isn't the way to settle issues.

> Please don't move the bug around; you don't maintain any of these
> packages AFAICT and you aren't helping.

Well, I think it's equally valid to say that this is a libgconf11 bug, for
trying to launch the gnome2 version of gconfd and *not* falling back to
launching the gnome1.2 version.  If people want to fix this via gconf2,
that's fine; the important thing then is that this version of gnucash
doesn't get into testing without the fixed version of gconf2 -- which it
won't.

I'll set the severity to grave, because this *is* an RC issue one way or
another; but it also doesn't affect any packages currently in testing.  The
defensive thing to do, if you care about getting this version of gnucash
into sarge, would be to sort out the libgconf11/gtkhtml ungraceful behavior
rather than waiting on the gconf2 bug to be fixed...

Does gnucash work with the woody version of gconf2, btw?  If not, this is an
issue that will affect partial upgrades from stable, and is therefore also
an RC bug on whichever package on the gnucash side needs to have a versioned
conflicts with gconf2.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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