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

[brad]

I upgraded from ubuntu from 9.04(?) to 9.10 a couple of weeks ago with
no problems.  gnucash was updated to 2.2.9 from a fairly old version at
the same time.   No issues.


On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:05 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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
> >           Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
> >           URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
> >           warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
> >
> 
> -- 
>        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
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