locked database

[John Drake]

I should have both budget and budget report (i.e. I created a budget) -- but
maybe it got moved or something so I need to start over. So then how can I
"close" the budget report without using the application? Much thanks

John


On Nov 14, 2007 3:19 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> This looks like you have a Budget Report open but don't have
> a matching Budget?
>
> -derek
>
> Quoting drakeBiosci <drake.biosci at gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > I've been using gnucash (GNOME) for about 6 mos -- no problems til now.
> > Recently updated to Gutsy and Gnucash 2.2.1, and turned on the autosave
> > feature. Now when I run gnucash I get the following error
> >
> > GnuCash could not obtain the lock for /home/username/filename
> >
> > Moving on, if I say "open anyway" the file loads for just a moment then
> > crashes, Tried different suggestions from this forum (delete .lck files,
> > opening with --nofile and turning off scheduled transaction) but no
> luck.
> >
> > Running from terminal I get
> >
> > gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure
> > time.
> >
> > and then when it crashes
> >
> > Found Finance::Quote version 1.13
> > Backtrace:
> > In current input:
> >   1: 0* (let ((options #)) (let (#) (# option)) (let (#) (# option))
> ...)
> >   1: 1* (let ((option #)) ((lambda # #) option))
> >   2: 2  [#<procedure #f (option)> #("General" "Budget" "a" ...)]
> >   ...
> >   2: 3  [#<procedure #f args> #f]
> > In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
> >  88: 4* [apply #<procedure #f (x)> (#f)]
> > In unknown file:
> >   ?: 5  [#<procedure #f (x)> #f]
> > In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
> > 341: 6* (set! value (budget->guid x))
> > 341: 7* [budget->guid #f]
> > 315: 8  (if (string? budget) budget (gncBudgetGetGUID budget))
> > 317: 9  [gncBudgetGetGUID #f]
> >
> > But this means nothing to me. Any advice? Much thanks.
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John M. Drake, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Odum School of Ecology
Athens, GA 30602-2202

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