Windows 213 crashes repeatedly, need help to cleanup

[Ian S. Worthington]

That's fixed it, thanks.

See comments against each item below.

Thanks,

ian
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------ Original Message ------
Received: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:34:29 PM BST
From: Andreas Köhler <andi5.py at gmx.net>
To: "Ian S. Worthington" <ianworthington at usa.net>Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Windows 213 crashes repeatedly, need help to cleanup

> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 14:10 +0100 schrieb Ian S. Worthington:
> > Using gnucash 213 for Windows.
> > 
> > gnucash crashed and could not be restarted, complaining about being in use
by
> > another user.  Any option selected just resulted in another crash.
> > 
> > I uninstalled/reinstalled gnucash got the same problem, deleted all the
files
> > I could find related to the book.  Now opening gnucash it complains that
it
> > can't find the book but selecting the option to create a new book just
crashes
> > it again.
> > 
> > How do I tidy up behind gnucash and get it working again?
> 
> could you please test one or more of the following, where ~ is "C:
> \Documents and Settings\$user"
> 


> * kill gconfd-2.exe

There's no process with such a name running


> * rename the directories ~\.gconf and ~\.gconfd (they are for your
> preferences)

done


> * check ~\Local Settings\Temp\gnucash.trace.abcdef files for warnings
> and critical warnings

Quite a few of these.

The last one contains:
*   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2390 bytes.
The identifiers might not be very random.
*   WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gnc-backend-postgres from C:\Program
Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash


The first contains:

*   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2390 bytes.
The identifiers might not be very random.
*   WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gnc-backend-postgres from C:\Program
Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.engine> gnc_account_n_children: assertion
`GNC_IS_ACCOUNT(account)' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <GLib> g_main_context_prepare() called recursively from within a
source's check() or prepare() member.
*   WARN <GLib> g_main_context_check() called recursively from within a
source's check() or prepare() member.
*   WARN <GLib> g_main_context_prepare() called recursively from within a
source's check() or prepare() member.
*   WARN <GLib> g_main_context_check() called recursively from within a
source's check() or prepare() member.
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.engine> xaccAccountGetCommoditySCU: assertion
`GNC_IS_ACCOUNT(acc)' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c' failed
*   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid window
handle.


> 
> -- andi5
> 
> 
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