Downgrading gnucash?

Jack McKinney jackmc-gnucash at lorentz.com
Tue Sep 9 13:58:29 CDT 2003


Big Brother tells me that Benoit Gr?goire wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:12, Jack McKinney wrote:
> >     In order to run gnucash-1.8.4, I had to upgrade my system from Debian
> > woody to Debian unstable.  Unfortunately, this makes my system way too
> > unstable.
> >     So, I have reinstalled my machine with Debian woody, which means that
> > gnucash is back to 1.6.6.  When I try to open my gnucash file, it complains
> > that it is corrupt, presumably because it has 1.8.4 specific entries in it.
> >     Is there a way to convert my 1.8.4 file back to 1.6.6?
> 
> No, the file format is identical, except for scheduled transactions and the 
> business features.  If you used any of those, you are out of luck, unless you 
> manually try to remouve them from the xml file.

    I didn't use either, and what it is complaining about is type "book":

$ gnucash mymoney

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

** WARNING **: Unknown type: book

** CRITICAL **: file sixtp.c: line 515 (sixtp_sax_end_handler): assertion `pdata->parsing_ok' failed.
Error: sixtp_handle_catastrophe: parse failed at 

(stack-frame 0x82ce348
             (parser 0x81ada40)
             (tag (null))
             (data-for-children (nil))
             (data-from-children)
             (frame-data (nil)))
  (stack-frame 0x82dd748
               (parser 0x82cde90)
               (tag gnc-v2)
               (data-for-children (nil))
               (data-from-children)
               (frame-data (nil)))
    (stack-frame 0x82dd838
                 (parser 0x82ce1d0)
                 (tag gnc:count-data)
                 (data-for-children 0x82dd850)
                 (data-from-children)
                 (frame-data 0x82dd850))
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