[KLUG Members] gnucash and Ximian

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:32:05 -0400 (EDT)


>For a while I thought KDE 2 had GNOME beat. Ximian is beautiful. 

Yes it is,  the ULTIMATE desktop.  And once Bonobo is really complete it will be
the ULTIMA II desktop!  :)

>One problem though, I get this error message when I try to start gnucash
> bash-2.04$ ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> gnucash: [W] "failure loading
> ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/c-interface.scm"
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/prefs.scm"
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: Permission denied: "/usr/share/guile/1.4/slibcat"
> gnucash: [W] "failure loading
> ""/usr/share/gnucash/scm/srfi/srfi-8.guile.scm"
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:

Do these files exists?
What version of gnucash?
What version of guile?
What version of slib?

>Seems to me it is trying to use these files with w premissions. That
>doesn't seem right for something that is located in /usr/share

strace it and find out for sure.

>One other thing. How do I make an icon preform an action not create a
>folder. With GNOME you could just put the arg in. Ximian doesn't seem
>to be the same.

Not sure i follow you....


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