multiple gnucash's running

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri May 12 12:33:00 EDT 2006


Open Recent shouldn't open a "new window" per se.  It should close
the current one and open the new one in the same instance.  There
are certainly some known issues with this process in 1.8 and many
of them have been fixed in 1.9.

Can you reproduce this in 1.9?

-derek

Brian <dol-sen at telus.net> writes:

> Sorry, if this is double posted. I just relaized I sent it the first
> time with the wrong email id.
>
>
> I just ran into a problem with 1.8.12 that may still be in the 1.9
> series.
>
> I had started gnucash, entered an invoice, then realized it was with a
> backup file I was testing with.  Used the open recent to open the real
> data file.  Gnucash was started in an new window with the other file.
> While that one was starting I clicked on the first instance which then
> began filling up with reports and such from the second instance.  Guile
> then crashed (sorry, didn't get the details).  The only thing printed in
> the terminal was:
>
> GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 138 (g_hash_table_lookup):
> assertion `hash_ table != NULL' failed.
>
> GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 138 (g_hash_table_lookup):
> assertion `hash_ table != NULL' failed.
>
> GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 138 (g_hash_table_lookup):
> assertion `hash_ table != NULL' failed.
> Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
> Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
> Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
> Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
> (0.0018s) [load] -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 -->
> 0x8db0008
> brian at big_squirt ~ $ gnucash
>
>
> It seems that guile cannot keep track of witch instance it belongs to.
> -- 
> Brian Dolbec <brian_dolbec at telus.net>
> -- 
> Brian <dol-sen at telus.net>
>
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