GnuCash 1.7.5 never displays
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
24 Dec 2002 09:38:43 -0500
What happens if you run gnucash --debug ?
-derek
Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org> writes:
> I thought I would jump in and try this to see how some of the new
> features work. I'm running on a more-or-less up-to-date RedHat 7.2
> system and was running GnuCash 1.6.2. I uninstalled 1.6.2, installed
> g-wrap 1.3.2 and gnucash 1.7.5.
>
> The install went quite smoothly, none of the upgrade hell that
> previous versions have required! Very nice.
>
> Then I tried to launch gnucash from my desktop icon. After waiting a
> few minutes, I tried again. After a few minutes, still nothing, so I
> opened an xterm and tried running it manually. I got a message about
> the last and next stable versions, then nothing. I waited a couple of
> minutes, looking at the near-zero CPU then finally did a 'ps -ef |
> grep gnucash' only to see nothing! I tried 'ps -efwww | grep gnucash'
> and found all three processes sitting there. I killed them all off
> thinking they had hung because the last time I ran gnucash I had an
> unexpected system shutdown (UPS shutdown) and there was a lock file
> which needed to be cleaned up. I removed it and retried running
> manually from the xterm. Same story; I got the message about the next
> and previous stable versions, then nothing. I've waited about 10
> minutes now while I composed this message and ran to get a cup of
> coffee.
>
> Any tips on figuring out why nothing appears on my screen?
>
> roland
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