GNUCash won't load

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Jan 28 14:45:34 CST 2004



In message <40181C89.6010303 at hipkiss.org>, Jonathan Hipkiss writes:
>I'm sorry I'm new to Linux, what do you mean by that.  I clicked on the 
>K Menu and then Apps then Finances then GNUCash
>
>Is that what you mean?  I was logged on as root.

Two things:

1) You should never log in as root unless you need to do system maintaince
-- it is way to easy to totally trash your system that way.  You should
create a 'normal' user account and use that account for every day sorts
of things (eg working on your finances or writing letters, etc.).

2) To 'run it from the console' (as suggested by Daniel Hannum), you
should create an X terminal.  There should be a menu item for this
under your K Menu somewhere (KTerm?).  This will create a window you
can type stuff (commands) in.  Type in:

gnucash

and press Return (or Enter).

As gnucash starts it will spit out error messages if it is having
trouble starting.  This is probably what Daniel Hannum is taking about. 
These messages will help identify what is wrong.

>
>J
>
>Daniel Hannum wrote:
>
>>Did you run it from the console? It's usually rather talkative when
>>loading.
>>
>>On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 03:42, Jonathan Hipkiss wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I've just installed Mandrake 9.2 on two of my home PCs (I'm trying to move a
>way from Windows) and GNUCash is preinstalled.
>>>
>>>On both my PCs it won't load, the splash screen loads and says it's loading 
>various modules and then says it's loading the config but then disapears and i
>s never seen again.
>>>
>>>I don't get any error messages.
>>>
>>>I've got GNUCash 1.8.6
>>>
>>>Any ideas?  
>>>
>>>It's pretty crucial to my move away from Windows that I get GNUCash working 
>because I'm a heavy user of Microsoft Money and will have to stay with Windows
> if I can't find an alternative, I'm hoping GNUCash is it.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Jonathan
>>>
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>>
>>
>>  
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