Re: gnumeric on os x

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:58 -0400, Geoffrey Brown wrote:
> I don't know if this is a macports issue.  While I've managed to get
> gnumeric to work correctly under my account -- all
> that launchctl stuff was a pain -- I haven't been able to get my cgi
> scripts (running as _www) to successfully use ssconvert.
>
> The errors are exactly what I'd expect in my user account if I hadn't
> gotten the dbus stuff working there.
>
> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
> causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
> have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Not
> running within active session)
>
>
> I'm sure there's some magic incantation, but I can't find it.

Are you in fact running gconfd? Since this seems to be on a web server
chances are that you don ont have a gconfd running. In any case for a
web server I would probably compile goffice
--with-config-backend=keyfile and use a keyfile for Gnumeric's
preferences

Andreas