GNUCash won't load

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 28 14:52:41 CST 2004


Can you cut-and-paste what it says on the terminal?

-derek

Jonathan Hipkiss <jonathan at hipkiss.org> writes:

> I just get the splash screen which then just disapears???
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> Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>Hmm...
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>>It doesn't output anything else on the terminal where you started gnucash?
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>>-derek
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>>Jonathan Hipkiss <jonathan at hipkiss.org> writes:
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>>>Yes it's there but it's empty but for two lines:
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>>>;;; -*-scheme-*-
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>>>;; Sample system-wide config file. At the moment, it's empty
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>>>
>>>!!!!
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>>>Jonathan
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>>>Derek Atkins wrote:
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>>>>Make sure the system-wide config file exists (probably /etc/gnucash/config)
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>>>>If that gets lost or destroyed gnucash wont run.
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>>>>-derek
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>>>>Jonathan Hipkiss <jhipkiss at tesco.net> writes:
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>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>I've just installed Mandrake 9.2 on two of my home PCs (I'm trying to move away from Windows) and GNUCash is preinstalled.
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>>>>>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 is 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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