crash upon startup with reports open

[Victor Chudnovsky]

Hi Maf.

Thanks! Renaming the file in ~/.gnucash/books did the trick!

Victor


On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:11 +0000, Maf. King wrote:
> On Monday 11 December 2006 02:52, Victor Chudnovsky wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am using gnucash 2.0.2 on Fedora Core 6.
> >
> > When I balanced my checkbook last month, I saved my gnucash file with
> > several reports open. When I try to open the file this month, gnucash
> > crashes as it tries to reopen the reports: I see gnucash starting up, my
> > account windows come up, and then the reports that I had open---and then
> > it croaks.
> >
> > Is there a way to start up gnucash and tell it to not run any open
> > reports?
> >
> > Here's the output I get on the console:
> > ==== BEGIN OUTPUT ===
> > Backtrace:
> > In current input:
> >    1: 0* (let* ((options #)) (let* (#) (# option)) (let (#) (#
> > option)) ...)
> >    1: 1* (let* ((option #)) ((lambda # #) option))
> >    1: 2* [gnc:lookup-option #f "General" "Step Size"]
> > In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
> > 1463: 3  ((options (quote lookup)) section name)
> > 1463: 4* [#f lookup]
> >
> > /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:1463:4: In expression (options (quote
> > lookup)):
> > /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:1463:4: Wrong type to apply: #f
> > ==== END OUTPUT ====
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > Victor
> 
> Hi Victor,
> 
> You can use gnucash --nofile to start with no data file, but I don't think 
> that will help in your case.  (File->open will probably give you the same 
> crash!)
> 
> Have a look in ~/.gnucash/books/  - the open reports are defined in those 
> files - choose the one most like your data file name, and rename it.
> 
> Or, rename your data file?
> 
> HTH,
> Maf.
> 
> 
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