Gnucash on Ubuntu 9.04, crashing

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Guido Milanese <guidofabrizio.milanese at fastwebnet.it> writes:

> On Thursday 03 December 2009 18:47:03 Derek Atkins wrote:
> [dealing with my help message]
>>
>> What is the exact message you receive?
> [i.e. debug]
> This is the debug message:
>
> <quote>
[snip]
> </quote>

Nothing important there..  But it does mean you data file is still
there.  Check in your gnucash.trace file for parsing errors?

>> There was another reported issue on an upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04
>> -> 9.10 that causes data corruption.  It's an Ubuntu-specific
>> problem and has to do with GnuCash overwriting your data file
>> with a GConf or desktop file. A fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 does
>> not exhibit the problem.
> I am still on Ubuntu 9.04, however. I have no desktops files! I keep 
> the desktop absolutely clean, don't like the messy windows-like 
> desktops.
>>
>> I hope you have a backup of your data file, because you're going
>> to need it.
> Oh yes, I'm a bit of a fanatic with backups!

-derek

> thanks,
> guido, italy

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