Can't run 2.4.10 (was: GnuCash 2.4.10 released)

[John Ralls]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Dustin Henning wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 04:47
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; The00Dustin at gmx.net
> Cc: john.layman at laymanandlayman.com; 'John Ralls';
> gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Can't run 2.4.10 (was: GnuCash 2.4.10 released)
> 
> I just want to add in this thread that there's another known problem on
> Windows that could affect you. If your display settings are set to 16 bit,
> GnuCash won't run. Most people have their display settings set to 24 or 32
> bit, but if you connect remotely to another machine (via Remote Desktop),
> this connection is by default 16 bits. Just something to be aware of if you
> are working with remote connections. This has been reported as a bug in the
> GnuCash bugtracker [1], but is more likely a bug in gtk.
> 
> 
> Geert
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669581
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> Apparently I was experiencing that crash as well.  However, I disconnected
> and reconnected at 24 bit and it made no difference.  I am going to leave
> GnuCash running to see what happens when I connect remotely and it is
> already started.  Is it safe to assume this bug only affects the new GTK
> version?  I am fairly certain that I was running 2.4.7 in a remote session.

I just looked, and there was a snap re-release (2.24.10) on Monday, and the Win32 binaries are up at ftp.gnome.org. After testing that it builds, I committed a change to the GC 2.4 branch, so you and Geert can try tomorrow's nightly.

Regards,
John Ralls