Problems with gconf/dbus/gnucash

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

I have to admit that I have no idea about gconf or dbus.  The only thing 
I know is that dbus is used by gconf, which is used by gnucash ...

Now, I've got a little group of five amd64 machines, all running the 
same NetBSD 6.99.23 kernel and userland, and all running the same set of 
300+ packages, all of which were just rebuilt and reinstalled from a 
very recent pkgsrc.

On three of these machines, gnucash runs properly, and loads my existing 
data file without any problem.  On the other two machines, I get two 
message boxes during startup, (the active) one saying that it "Cannot 
find default values".  If I select the Setup button in this box, it 
tries to walk me through editting my ~/.gconf.path file, which already 
contains the right data!

If I instead select the Skip button, I get a series of error messages 
similar to the following (reformatted, to insert line breaks)

  Failed to load key /apps/gnucash/general/show_splash_screen:
  Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a
  missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See
  http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
  Failed to get connection to session: Could not connect: No such
  file or directory)

I've restarted dbus, and I've compared all the dbug system files with 
those on the working machines, and found no differences.  Yet these 
messages persist, and I am at a loss to figure out how to proceed.

(Yes, I did visit the URL listed in the error message, but it wasn't 
terribly helpful.)


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