BUG: .gnucash, permissions, crash

[Dave Peticolas]

On 27 Jul 2001 23:26:19 +0000, Tripp Lilley wrote:
> I didn't see anything on the "Hacking GnuCash" page about an issue
> tracker, so I assume I'm supposed to post issues / bugs here. If that's
> incorrect, please let me know where to post them. 
> 
> I'm working against a CVS drop from some time last night, and encountered
> this bug. When a user's .gnucash directory exists, but is not writable by
> the user, selecting "File->New" causes GnuCash to unceremoniously exit
> with this error:
> 
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/main-window.scm:127:45: In procedure mkdir in
> expression (mkdir dotgnucash-dir 448):
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/main-window.scm:127:45: File exists
> 
> It also happens when I choose the "create new accounts" option on the
> initial new user dialog.
> 
> I'd post a patch, but I'm not yet conversant enough with the source :)

Thanks for the report, this should be fixed in 1.6.2.

dave