GnuCash crash recovery

[Anthony W. Juckel]

On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 17:20, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:18, Anthony W. Juckel wrote:
> > After a fair account re-arranging session, GnuCash crashed on me.  As I
> > hadn't hit save during the process, I lost about an hours work...  I've
> > noticed that GnuCash stores quite a few .xac and .log files in the
> > directory it saves to, so I'm wondering if those could be used to
> > recover the information that I lost.
> 
> Do you remember what action preceded the crash?

I clicked on "Reports->Income & Expense->Expense Barchart", and crash. 
I can't find a core-dump but if I ran it through a terminal window I get
the following message:

** CRITICAL **: file gnome-font.c: line 194 (gnome_font_new): assertion
`face != NULL' failed.
I can't find the default fonts needed by Guppi.
In 99% of all cases, this means that there is a problem with
your installed version of gnome-print.

While it looks like I have an error on my system, it would be nice if
someone with a little more knowledge about gnucash internals could look
into this.  I generated an strace of the process, but that might be too
low-level to be good (and it is reproducable, so I'll leave the system
that way for now, maybe try to figure out if it is a gnucash or guppi
problem).

> > I did a quick mailing list search, and I found that someone had written
> > a quick and dirty recovery perl script for the 1.4.x series.  I've
> > downloaded the script, but I can't seem to find the perl libraries it
> > requires (I have gnucash installed via .deb), and I'm not sure that it
> > would work on the 1.6.x series..I just don't know what changes there
> > were to the engine.  So, I'm wondering what would be my best option for
> > recovering this data?  Or am I better off just redoing the work (I
> > didn't lose any transactions, I was just rearranging them)?
> 
> Probably better off redoing them, and hitting 'save' occasionaly.
> 
> dave
> 

Anthony W. Juckel
GnuCash 1.6.4 (debian/sid)