Problem loading file

[Mike Evans]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:29:35 -0400
Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Geert,
> 
> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
> 
> > The function gnc:restore-report-by-guid-with-custom-template was added
> > recently by me in the 2.5 series and is used to restore open
> > reports. The function is written to the meta file in the
> > .gnucash/books directory matching your gnucash book. This file is
> > parsed when GnuCash opens your data file.
> >
> > So yes, if you had open reports when testing gnucash 2.5.2, this will
> > result in a crash when trying to open the same book under the same
> > user account with gnucash 2.4.x afterwards.
> >
> > My first reaction was to dismiss this as only a developer
> > inconvenience, but that is not the only case this can happen. A user
> > trying gnucash 2.6 but reverting back to 2.4 for whatever reason could
> > run into this. So I should probably add some code to the 2.4.x series
> > to at least not crash. Can you create a bug report for this so it
> > doesn't get forgotten ? (I don't have time now to fix this
> > immediately, sorry).
> 
> Is there some way to have the code check whether the API exists and
> "exit gracefully" if it does not?  e.g.:
> 
> guile> (defined? 'gnc:restore-report-by-guid-with-custom-template)
> #f
> guile> (defined? 'car)
> #t
> 
> So you could only call the API if it's defined?  That way you wouldn't
> require changes to 2.4.
> 
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Geert
> 
> -derek

I get the same problem and since I see no bug has been created for this, I'll create one myself.

Mike E
> 
> > On 04-08-13 15:53, Cristian Marchi wrote:
> >> Thanks, that could be the problem as under Ubuntu I occasionally
> >> open the file with 2.5 unstable version (without saving it) while on
> >> windoes I've only the stable version. I will try to use your
> >> suggested methed by finding the differences.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tip
> >>
> >> Il 04/08/2013 13:48, Guilherme Salgado ha scritto:
> >>> I seem to remember seeing something like this when I tried to open a
> >>> file on GnuCash 2.4.12 after having opened it on 2.5.3 (trunk).
> >>> Luckily I had a recent backup of my ~/.gnucash and after diffing the
> >>> two it became obvious what lines I had to remove to stop 2.4.12 from
> >>> crashing.
> >>>
> >>> The fact that you can open it on Windows is probably because your
> >>> equivalent of ~/.gnucash there hasn't been tainted by GnuCash 2.5.3
> >>>
> >>> On 4 August 2013 05:08, Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:
> >>>> I've a problem opening a file with GnuCash under Ubuntu
> >>>> 12.10. This is the
> >>>> message I get when opening it from the terminal:
> >>>>
> >>>> Backtrace:
> >>>> In current input:
> >>>>     1: 0* (let* ((options #)) (let* (#) (# option)) (let* (#) (#
> >>>> option))
> >>>> ...)
> >>>>     1: 1  (gnc:restore-report-by-guid-with-custom-template 0 ...)
> >>>>
> >>>> <unnamed port>:1:897: In expression
> >>>> (gnc:restore-report-by-guid-with-custom-template 0
> >>>> "b1f15b2052c149df93e698fe85a81ea6" ...):
> >>>> <unnamed port>:1:897: Unbound variable:
> >>>> gnc:restore-report-by-guid-with-custom-template
> >>>>
> >>>> I see the GnuCash splash screen and tip of the day, but then it exits.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can open it without problem in Windows XP. I also tried to copy all
> >>>> settings file from XP to Ubuntu but I get the same error message.
> >>>> I got it working by removing the all the ~/.gnucash folder.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any idea of what's going on?
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