From: Alex R. <sh...@gr...> - 2005-03-13 07:40:24
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Eric, On 03/13/2005 01:01:06 AM, Eric&Tamie Poulson wrote: >=20 > It seems gconf was running. If I kill it, it is restarted when gramps tri= es to=20 > start. Failure of gramps is unchanged. [snip] > File "/opt/gnome/share/gramps/StartupDialog.py", line 158, in build_pag= e2 > self.addr.set_text(GrampsKeys.get_researcher_addr()) > TypeError: GtkEntry.set_text() argument 1 must be string, not None This error means that the gconf key was not found, and that the schema (the default value plus the description) for that key was not found either. Most common cause is when the gconfd is not restarted, so that it is not aware of a newly installed schema. Since you killed it and it was restarted again and still the schema was not found, it seems that something is wrong with the schemas. Maybe they failed to install or they were installed at the wrong place. Did you run 'make install' for gramps as root? Were there any errors or warning during install? What does this say: $ gconftool-2 --get-default-source Whatever that returns -- on my system it's the xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults string --- should be the path for the root of gconf tree: $ ls /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults apps desktop schemas system $ ls /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gramps behavior %gconf.xml interface paths preferences researcher $ ls /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/gramps behavior %gconf.xml interface paths preferences researcher If you don't see something similar (for your case, as returned by 'gconftool-2 --get-default-source') then something went wrong during installation of gramps. If you do see everything just like the above, then something is wrong with gconf. I would bet on the installation (non-root?) Alex --=20 Alexander Roitman http://www.gramps-project.org |