horrible crash HELP--SOLVED

[Andrew Sackville-West]

It appears that one or more of my reports got corrupted...? Anyway, what 
I did was copy the actual data files (not the .xacs and .logs) into 
another directory, reloaded the thing and it seems to be working fine. 
lost all my reports but that's no big deal.

A

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> Okay, running 1.8.10. Have been using for a few months pretty smooth, 
> but here is what has just happened.
> 
> Updating some reports and I noticed that some of the numbers weren't 
> adding up right. This happens now and then and I just save the file, 
> exit, restart and all works great. So I did that, came back in and I 
> notice some of my SX aren't right. The actual transaction information is 
> missing. hmm... now it gets fuzzy because all of the sudden I'm looking 
> at my blank terminal session and the prompt. okay. so I restart and it 
> gives me the "can't obtain a lock" problem and I click "open anyway" as 
> I know it was saved... then it tries to open the file and kicks out to 
> the terminal "Segmentation Fault"
> 
> yikes.
> 
> I try a different file by using the command line to select the file 
> name. This one seg faults too... Then (2 out of 3 businesses down, why 
> not keep going?) I pull up the third one by launching gnucash, when it 
> says "can't obtain lock"  I choose "create new file" or whatever it is. 
> Then I cancel out of the wizard and use the "open recent" menu to open 
> the third business. It works fine. So then I turn off the SX autorun as 
> that was the last thing I messed with AND this third file has no SX. Try 
> to open the other files -- same problem - Seg Fault kills the program.
> 
> HELP!
> 
> Andrew
>