hanging on opening old file

Thu May 1 16:42:37 EDT 2008

FYI - following up on this.   I installed gnucash 2.2.4 from fink unstable,
blowing away the Macports version, and it read in my old datafile fine
without hanging.  I have no idea what the problem was but its all working
now.
Thanks,
Scott

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:36 AM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Ooh. Ooh. Someone who can actually benefit from the reason I renamed the
> fink package when gnucash 2.0 came out.
>
> Theoretically, you could make a copy of your existing data file (you don't
> want to be trying to take a data file back and forth now). Then just 'fink
> install gnucash' or 'fink install gnucash2', and fink should take care of
> removing one and replacing it with the other. Either one is invoked with
> 'gnucash' in an xterm window. Once they're both built, you should be able to
> switch back and forth in about 30 seconds (once you've quit the version
> you're changing from). The data file incompatibility means that if you try
> this switching, you will always want to start with either an explicit
> path/filename or --nofile to keep gnucash from opening the wrong data file.
>
> OTOH, it has been a loooong time since I tried running 1.8.11 (and I only
> maintain the newer version package). So you probably do want to wait until
> after your taxes are done to try the fink version of 2.2.3 (or 4). (and
> there have been slib/guile problems with the macports version lately)
>
> When 2.0 first came out, you could take a data file back and forth across
> versions. and I did it several times. But 2.2 made a couple changes that
> result in difficulties if you try going back to 1.8.x (or even 2.0.x) after
> saving the file from 2.2.x.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dave
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Scott Lipcon wrote:
>
>  That would have been embarrassing!   I just double checked, both in
> > starting
> > gnucash normally, and in starting with --nofile and using File:Open to
> > open
> > my data file, and there is no hidden popup window anywhere.
> >
> > At this point I've got gnucash 1.8.12 installed via fink and 2.2.3
> > installed
> > via macports, and 1.8.12 works fine, 2.2.3 simply hangs.   fink has a
> > 2.2.3build available in its "unstable" branch - maybe I'll try to
> >
> > install that to
> > see if its something about how macports built gnucash thats the problem
> > (unfortunately, I'll probably have to remove 1.8.12 to do that, so I'm
> > going
> > to have to wait until after my taxes are done)
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On 2/25/08, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.tracefile
> > > > 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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