GnuCash always crashes on start up

[Oliver König]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 21:58:37 you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Try starting gnucash with the command guncash --nofile in a terminal
> window. See if that helps.  You may have some problem with the data file
> you have tried to open.  If anything is printed on the terminal before
> bug-buddy, please post it here, to maybe show what is causing your problem
> (I don't think that the bug-buddy stuff you have posted will help, but
> others may know better!)
That works. So what should I do?
>
> 2.0.2 is way old, and has loads of bugs fixed by more recent versions.
>
> there is a newer version (2.2.0, afaik) available from
> ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-crauch/10.2/
>
> which you add as an "installation source" in YaST.
Gnucash 2.0.2 used to work. I have 2 data files and the online banking only 
worked with one data file so I decided to install GnuCash 2.2.0 from 
ftp://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-crauch/10.2/ But that version has no 
online banking at all. So I re-installed 2.0.2 and since then the application 
crashes all the time! This looks like Murphy's Law. I should have never 
uninstalled 2.0.2 at all!

Well anyway, I installed 2.2.0 again and it starts up fine and it opens the 
data file. The only problem: It does not have online banking so it's useless 
for me. If I go back to 2.0.2 the whole thing will crash again! So I am 
trapped!
>
> HTH,
> Maf.
>
> oliver at windfinder.com
>
> On Thursday 30 Aug 2007, Oliver König wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I installed gnucash 2.0.2 rpm with Yast on OpenSuse 10.2. The application
> > GnuCash always crashes on start up!
> >
> > # gnucash
> > gnucash: [D] "starting up (1)."
> > gnucash: [D] "handling command line arguments"("gnucash")
> > gnucash: [D] "files to open: "()
> > gnucash: [D] (results #<eof>)
> >
> > The Gnucash start window appears, next the Gnucash window appears. then
> > another window with the following message appears:
> >
> > "GnuCash could not obtain the lock
> > for /home/oliver/Windfinder/Fibu/gnucash/gnucash_ok.
> > That database may be in use by another user, in which case you should not
> > open the database. What would you like to do? | Open anyway | create new
> > file | Quit |"
> >
> > I select "open anyway"
> >
> > The application crashes, a bug buddy window appears and the shell outputs
> > the following:
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Accessibility
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Apply theme
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Assistive
> > Technology Preferences
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Bonobo Component
> > Browser
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Desktop
> > Background
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for File Management
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Fonts
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for GNOME Font
> > Viewer
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for GNOME System
> > Monitor
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Keyboard
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Menu Editor
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Menus & Toolbars
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Mouse
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Nautilus
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Preferred
> > Applications
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Screensaver
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Search for
> > Files...
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Shortcuts
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Sound
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Theme
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Windows
> >
> > ** (bug-buddy:19120): WARNING **: Couldn't load icon for Show Desktop
> > "/opt/gnome/bin/gnucash": not in executable format: File format not
> > recognized Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
> >
> > What should I do?
> >
> > Regards,



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