Gnucash 1.6.6 on RedHat 7.3 only starts as root

[Peter T. Abplanalp]

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On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:55:46AM +1000, Conrad Canterford wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 08:39, Peter T. Abplanalp wrote:
> > > actually, one other thing to try.  rm -rf ~/.gnucash, start
> > > gnucash and (hopefully) pick file->open and choose your datafile.
> > you may want to save any config stuff you have there.  i think the
> > important thing is to remove ~/.gnucash/books.  maybe just mv
> > ~/.gnucash ~/.gnucash.old.
> > sometimes a react to harshly and rm isn't really called for :-)
> 
> Actually, the appropriate chown -R command should work here too. Before
> you get too carried away with rm -rf, have a look at this directory tree

quite right :-)  rm -rf was a bit hasty.  heh

> and see if there is stuff in there owned by root or otherwise looking
> "wrong". There shouldn't be, of course - when you started as root, it
> should have created a ./gnucash for root, rather than using your real
> userid's directory. However, it certainly doesn't  hurt to check.

possibly an su instead of a login or su -

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Peter Abplanalp

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