Startup Failure

[Maf. King]

On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:07:25 Mike C. wrote:
> Yes, I had a scheduled transaction that was due yesterday and was
> entered.  I have another copy of GnuCash on my notebook that is not as
> up to date so I  opened it today.  It seemed to work fine but the
> scheduled transaction came up to I changed the value needed to 1 and it
> entered.  Now that version on the notebook won't open either.  What is
> the situation here and how do I fix it?
> I hope you can help,
> Mike
>

Hi Mike,

Sounds like there is something wrong with the newly created SX.  Is it 
possible that it references an old account name or something?

Can you open an old backup file, (in your data dir, look for something like 
{FILENAME}.{TIMESTAMP}.xac  (eg. myaccounts.200907011504.xac) - choose the 
latest timestamp before you hit the problem) and don't permit the SX to be 
created - can you see anything wrong with the template transaction accounts 
etc.?

if there is nothing obviously wrong, can you do a diff/compare between the 
backup and broken files - the xml might suggest a clue?


Maf.