gnucash 2.0.5 fails silently to open gnucash file

[Derek Atkins]

What happens if you do:

  File -> New -> New Accounts Page

-derek

Quoting Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:

> I have two gnucash files -- on for home finances, won for business.
> Yeasterday everything was fine.  Today, it will open the work file
> properly, but not the home file.  When I say
>   gnucash /farhome/accounts/05/home
> it puts up its welcome graphic, starts up normally, but with a minimal
> window, and even if I enlarge it, there are no accounts to be seen.
> It goes through the motions of reading the file, but shows no accounts.
>
> The window has the bar saying file edit view actions business reports ...
> and the line below it with only icons for save and close (close is greyed
> out) and the rest of the window is a blank grey.  I get no error messages
> or dialog that I can see.
>
> The command
>   gnucash /farhome/accounts/05/work
> works fine.
>
>  Advice would be welcome.
>
>  Is this likely to be a known problem with a known workaround?
>
>  I'm using gnucash 2.0.5 as distributed with Debian etch.  I've been using
> various gnucash for many years now and hope to continue.
>
>  Is the file likely to be corrupt?  Is there a way of testing it?  (It
> looks like a proper  XML file when I zcat it through less)  lIs there a
> secret debugging trace flag that could reveal the trouble?  Should I give
> up and try a backup file and discard the work I did yesterday?  (Being
> paranoid about computers, I still have backup gnucash files dating back
> for months)
>
> As I said, advice would be welcome.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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