Gnucash dies when

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Jon Loose" <jjloose at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Yes, I have done this, but it is after pressing 'open anyway' that gnucash
> dies.  Sorry my original email was not clear.

That's very odd.

Try "gnucash --nofile" and then File -> Open  ?

> Jon

-derek

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord at MIT.EDU] 
> Sent: 12 January 2009 16:10
> To: Jon Loose
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Gnucash dies when
>
> Hi,
>
> "Jon Loose" <jjloose at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Click on "Open Anyways"
>
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>
> -derek
>
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-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available