Fw: Gnucash dies when opening my data file

[Jon Loose]

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Sent: Monday, 12 January, 2009 12:26:02
Subject: Re: Gnucash dies when opening my data file

Many thanks for a swift response.  I removed the lock file completely, and re-ran from the command line.  This gave me the following output (and no gnucash!)

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gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.

Found Finance::Quote version 1.13
ERROR: In procedure read:
ERROR: Unknown # object: #\<
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I presume this suggests that my data file has been corrupted.  Do you have a further suggestion?

Many thanks,

Jon




----- Original Message ----
From: Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Monday, 12 January, 2009 11:31:56
Subject: Re: Gnucash dies when opening my data file

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Jon Loose wrote:
> I've just completed my first year using gnucash for home accounts, and it's
> been excellent on the whole.  System is xubuntu (with gnome in addition to
> xfce), gnucash is 2.2.6 (from ubuntu repos).  
>
> It seems that my system didn't go down cleanly last night, as there is a
> lock file remaining.  When opening gnucash today, I'm asked what to do
> about the lock file.  I say 'ignore' and the dialog disappears, but then
> gnucash just dies - so I have no way of getting to my data.
>
> Any thoughts much appreciated.  I hope I haven't just lost a year's
> information.
>
> Jon

1. Try removing the lock file as you know it is not required. 
/home/user/gnucash_data/file.LCK
Of course you aren't meant to do this so you will have to change its 
permissions first
2. Open the directory /home/user/gnucash_data (whatever you called it) and 
copy it to another directory.
open from the terminal 
gnucash /home/user/new_directory/file
3. Your backup file??

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