hanging on opening old file

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 25 10:47:39 EST 2008


Can you check around and see if, perhaps, there's a popup window
that popped up BEHIND the main window?

-derek

"Scott Lipcon" <slipcon at gmail.com> writes:

> One more bit of information - I ran with --debug:
>
> when I open the old data file,  the following is in the gnucash.trace file
> in $TMP:
>
> * 21:54:11  INFO <gnc.commodity> [gnc_commodity_table_insert] insert
> 0x7ce29c0 XPT into nsp=0x872c1e0 CURRENCY
> * 21:54:11  INFO <gnc.commodity> [gnc_commodity_table_insert] insert
> 0x7ce2b30 XAG into nsp=0x872c1e0 CURRENCY
> * 21:54:11  INFO <qof.session> [qof_session_load] new book=0x7649180
> * 21:54:11  INFO <qof.engine> [qof_event_generate_internal] id=3
> hi=0x7c6d2f0 han=0x1a0080 data=0x0
> * 21:54:11  INFO <qof.engine> [qof_event_generate_internal] id=2
> hi=0x21db200 han=0x40ae40 data=0x0
> * 21:54:11  INFO <qof.engine> [qof_event_generate_internal] id=1
> hi=0x21699f0 han=0x307310 data=0x0
> * 21:54:11  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountCommitEdit] freeing splits for
> account 0x871a498 ()
>
>
>
> (the first few lines are repeated many times for different codes - and
> nothing is output after the last "freeing splits" line)
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Scott
>
> On 2/23/08, Scott Lipcon <slipcon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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