-----Original Message----- From: john <jra...@ceridwen.us> Sent: Monday, 3 January 2022 11:40 AM To: Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC-dev] Preferences for Accounting Period start-date and end-date lost on 4.9 Install
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 4:25 PM, Chris Good <goodchri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I installed Gnucash 4.9 on my Windows 10 machine (was 4.4) and the > Preferences for Accounting Period start-date and end-date were lost. > > They have gone back to the default 1/1/1970. > > Looking in the registry I can see they have been migrated (moved) from > HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\window\pages\account-tree\summary\ > [start -date etc] > > To > > HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\window\pages\account-tree\ > summary > > but the Preference dialog and the Accounts page still seem to be > looking at the old keys. > > I set them again using the preferences dialog and now they are in both > the old and new locations. > > After View, Refresh the Accounts page is showing the correct > Total(Period) figures again. > > If it makes any difference, the first time I opened 4.9 it was with > the --nofile arg. > > Should the old or new schema location be used? > > HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\general\prefs-version = 404 > HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\general\prefs-version = > 4009 The new schema is correct for GnuCash 4.7 and later. Regards, John Ralls Hi John, I put the registry back to how it was before I ran 4.9 (my BackupGnuCash utility saves the state of the Registry) and started 4.9 with args --debug --log gnc.pref=debug --log gnc.app-utils.gsettings=debug (no --nofile this time). This did something different to last time. Now the old path HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\window\pages\account-tree\summary is still correct and the new path HKCU\Software\GSettings\org\gnucash\GnuCash\window\pages\account-tree\summar y exists but is empty. The tracefile shows lots of subscribe warnings in the preferences migration and also afterwards: * 18:14:11 INFO <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [migrate_one_key] Migrating 'org.gnucash.dialogs.import.csv:last-geometry' to 'org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.import.csv:last-geometry' * 18:14:11 DEBUG <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [enter C:/gcdev64/gnucash/releases/src/gnucash-4.9/libgnucash/app-utils/gnc-gsettin gs.cpp:gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr()] * 18:14:11 DEBUG <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr] Looking for schema org.gnucash.dialogs.import.csv returned gsettings 00000000 * 18:14:11 WARN <GLib-GIO> subscribe() failed: only 64 different paths may be watched. It seems this is from: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/gio/gregistrysettingsbackend .c Because we have to cache every registry value locally, reads are done * from the cache rather than directly from the registry. Writes update * both. This means that the backend will not work if the watch thread is * not running. A GSettings object always subscribes to changes so we can * be sure that the watch thread will be running, but if for some reason * the backend is being used directly you should bear that in mind. /* Testing (on Windows XP SP3) shows that WaitForMultipleObjects fails with * "The parameter is incorrect" after 64 watches. We need one for the * message_sent cond, which is allowed for in the way the watches_remaining * variable is used. */ #define MAX_WATCHES 64 g_registry_backend_subscribe() if (g_atomic_int_dec_and_test (&self->watch->watches_remaining)) { g_atomic_int_inc (&self->watch->watches_remaining); g_warning ("subscribe() failed: only %i different paths may be watched.", MAX_WATCHES); return; } I've no idea why g_registry_backend_subscribe() is being called. Perhaps it is for every GSettings object so the warning thread can monitor changes? I cannot find anything in the GSettings doco about a 64 limit on subscriptions. Anybody have any ideas about what in GnuCash is causing these errors in Windows? I haven't seen any of these subscribe warnings in my Linux system. I may try to setup a Windows build environment so I can get a stack trace when I get some time. Do you have to pay for anything to do this for Windows? Regards, Chris Good _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
