Some Problems in using GnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Please be sure to CC gnucash-user on all replies...

Vikas Garud <vikas at techqual.com> writes:

> On Sunday 01 April 2007 14:03, you wrote:
>
> Please see in -line
>> What's printed on the terminal?  (you DID run gnucash from a terminal
>> window, Right?)
>
> I run GnuCash from KDE.  It's located under Applications=>Office.  It never 
> occurred to me to run it from terminal.  (Frankly, since I am a user without 
> any expertise in development, I tend to run applications through KDE, 
> whenever these are available under some menu item.)

That's fine, but if you read the GnuCash FAQ it says that to
aid in debugging you should run from the terminal.

>> What's printed in /tmp/gnucash.trace?
>
> Following Rauch Christian's response, I installed (upgraded) GnuCash to latest 
> version.  I guess, tmp/gnucash.trace wouldn't be of much use now.

no, probably not.

>> "lots of warnings and would not go further" isn't useful to me;
>> could you perhaps copy-and-paste the end of the build process?
>
> My mistake entirely.  Since older version was working satisfactorily, I was 
> not too keen to experiment too much.  But yes, this would be important 
> information to developers.  Next time I'd keep it in mind.  Now that latest 
> vesion is installed, I am not likely to attempt building the application.  
> (Incidentally, if I have to copy and paste, how do I do that?  The building 
> process happens in terminal.  If it is of significant use to you, I can 
> attempt the build process and send the output.)

Probably not useful at this point.

> Thanks

-derek

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