Please Help!!!! Cannot open my gnucash file!

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 23 12:05:12 EST 2009


JP,

You should file a bug with Ubuntu.

-derek

JP Briggs <jp.briggs at gmail.com> writes:

> Well I'm back up and running. My thoughts are that the upgraded version
> somehow overwrote my data file with this gconf referencing file when I tried
> to load the data file in Gnucash. This was a repeatable problem, since I'm
> running on a virtual machine, I could roll back to my previous Ubuntu version.
> Once rolled back, if I tried to open the data file (shared folder on my host
> machine, so it wasn't rolled back) I would get the same Unable to parse XML
> file. So it appears that the upgraded version was overwriting my data file.
>
> What I've done to finally fix it, is to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu 9.10 on
> a new guest VBox machine, install Gnucash, and then open the data file from
> the shared folder. Now it opens just fine. Seems like it was some kind of bug
> in the upgrade process.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone else experienced problems with upgrading.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JP
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     JP Briggs <jp.briggs at gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     [snip]
>     >     > Found Finance::Quote version 1.16
>     >     > /home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn:2: element gconf: Schemas
>     validity
>     >     > error : Element 'gconf': No matching global declaration available
>     for
>     >     the
>     [snip]
>     > jp at Macbuntu:~/Documents/gnucash$ cat JPandRobyn | head
>     > <?xml version="1.0"?>
>     > <gconf>
>     >     <entry name="file0" mtime="1258650368" type="string">
>     >         <stringvalue>/home/jp/Documents/gnucash/JPandRobyn</stringvalue>
>     >     </entry>
>     > </gconf>
>     > <?xml version="1.0"?>
>     > <gconf>
>     >     <entry name="sort_order" mtime="1256567967" type="string">
>     >         <stringvalue>ascending</stringvalue>
>    
>     This isn't a GnuCash data file.  This looks like a GConf data file.  So
>     this begs the question of what's going on, but it sounds like it might
>     an Ubuntu 9.10 bug.
>    
>     What happens if you move your data file somewhere else?  I.e., instead
>     of putting it into ~/Documents, saving your data file somewhere like
>     ~/GnuCash-Files or some other new directory?
>    
>     > -JP
>    
>     -derek
>    
>     PS: Sorry I didn't respond to this earlier, I was offline all weekend
>     and I'm just finally getting back to my email.
>     --
>           Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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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
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