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[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Yvan Strahm" <yvan.strahm at gmail.com> writes:

>     Anything interesting printed into /tmp/gnucash.trace?
>
> * 22:50:33  CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c'
> failed
> * 22:50:33  CRIT <gnc.backend.file> commodity_ref_to_dom_tree: assertion `c'
> failed
> * 22:50:38  WARN <gnc.backend> [file_session_end()] Error on g_unlink(/Volumes
> /FlashDisk/Gnucash/dnbnor.LCK): 2: No such file or directory

This would be a problem!  The lack of a LCK file means that it
couldn't write to the drive, or the write had some sort of
problem.

>     Honestly, all I can imagine is that you're using a FAT filesystem
>     and GnuCash's save mechanism is doing something that the FAT
>     driver doesn't like.  I just can't imagine WHAT it would be
>     doing, but perhaps the link(), create_new(), rename() isn't
>     really working right on FAT?
>
> yes it is FAT formatted  

Well, I do have access to a thumb drive so I can try to test
it here, but....

>     This only happens on your thumb drive?  What happens if you
>     reformat your thumb drive as EXT instead of FAT?  Does it
>     still happen then?
>
> I don't know if macosx can mount a EXT formatted partition, but this behaviour
> doesn't occurs when gnucash is running on the hard drive (so far), I will
> update the file from there from now on.

OH!  OSX.......   Ummm... David?   I'm on Linux, and for some
reason I assumed you were too.

> Thanks a lot for the help
> cheers
> yvan
>
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-derek

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