Tried to create a bom, but failed due to local symbols

[Les Howell]

I am running FEL Fedora f14. Gscheme version 1.6.2.20110115. My schematic is complete as near as I can tell, and I have created local symbols in the gaf directory according to the instructions on line.

I am new to gEDA, but familiar with schematics and electronics. (45 years building things, but using hand drawn schematics). This could be the result of personal errors, although I couldn't find any information on what or how to change things to get the right output.

Any help you can provide would be wonderful.

Command and output follows:
$ gnetlist -g bom -o pic18f45k22_noise.bom pic18f45k22_noise.sch
Loading schematic [/home/lesh/Work/VLE/kidstoy/documents/pic18f45k22_noise.sch]
WARNING: Found a placeholder/missing component, are you missing a symbol file? [23K256-1.sym]
WARNING: Found a placeholder/missing component, are you missing a symbol file? [pic18f45k22_40-1.sym]
WARNING: Found a placeholder/missing component, are you missing a symbol file? [47309-1.sym]
WARNING: Found a placeholder/missing component, are you missing a symbol file? [ld11733v.sym]
Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
Could not find refdes on component and could not find any special attributes!
Backtrace:
In current input:
   1: 0* [bom "pic18f45k22_noise.bom"]
In /usr/share/gEDA/scheme/gnet-bom.scm:
  37: 1 (let ((port #) (attriblist #)) (bom:printlist (cons # attriblist) port) ...)
  40: 2* [bom:parseconfig ...
  40: 3* [open-input-file "attribs"]
In unknown file:
   ?: 4 [open-file "attribs" "r"]

<unnamed port>: In procedure open-file in expression (open-file str OPEN_READ):
<unnamed port>: No such file or directory: "attribs"

[Krzysztof Kościuszkiewicz (k-kosciuszkiewicz)]

From the backtrace of the "bom" gnetlist backend I can see you're missing the file named "attribs".
This file is needed for the backend to know which attributes to process.
Format is simple: one attribute name per line in the file.

Regarding the missing symbols - any chance you could attach a snapshot of your project directory (containing the schematic, symbols and the local configuration files)?