hanging on opening old file

[Scott Lipcon]

Hello,

I'm hoping someone can help here.... I've been using gnucash 1.8 for many
years, first on Linux then on MacOS X using fink.   I upgraded to OSX
10.5today and installed gnucash
2.2.3 using Macports instead of fink.

When I start gnucash, it hangs trying to open my old data.   So I run
gnucash --nofile and it opens successfully.   When I try to open my file
from there, it again hangs.    I'm working from a fresh .gnucash directory,
and my data file is in a different directory.

I've let it sit for many minutes, its not taking a lot of CPU time, or
apparently making any progress.

I don't know where to go from here - any suggestions?

Thanks
Scott