Serious problem: can not open data file anymore!

Wouter van Marle wouter at squirrel-systems.com
Sat May 13 04:42:37 EDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:02 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
> On Saturday 13 May 2006 03:44, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've run into a serious problem - I can not open my data anymore in
> > GnuCash since yesterday. I'm going to restore a backup now, but I think
> > I've ran into a serious bug. The program starts up normally, then opens
> > a window which I guess is a "scheduled transactions" window (I do not
> > recall having any scheduled transactions _now_ but I may be mistaken in
> > that, and I obviously can not check).
> >
> 
> 
> Hi Wouter - 
> 
> This sounds very familiar - probably you do have a SX, and the account it is 
> trying to create a transaction in has been removed.
> 
> run gnucash --nofile  (from a console!)
> 
> then go Edit -> Preferences -> scheduled Transactions, 
> turn off the "Run on GC start" option
> 
> then load your troublesome file and investigate the SX situation!

Right... there was a problem indeed. A scheduled transaction that I do
not think I put there myself; no idea how that one got in there.

Works again... thanks!

Wouter.


> 
> HTH,
> Maf.
> 
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