Blank Entry Removal?

[Bobby Goins]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 02:36, you wrote:
> Quoting Bobby Goins <goins at iglou.com>:
> >> What kind of "lock ups"?  I'd rather work on the lock-ups than
> >> try to remove blank entries...
> >
> > gnucash just freezes.  I cannot do anything with it.  I end up starting a
> > console session, killing the guile process, and thus killing gnucash.
> > gnucash doesn't seem to have a problem re-starting, except for the
> > warning I get since I didn't save the session.
>
> Hmm..  Instead of just killing it, could you gdb and "attach" to the
> gnucash process.. and then get a backtrace?
>
Will this do?

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