Gnucash no more usable

[Colin Law]

2009/10/8 Olivier Cailloux <mlsmg at ulb.ac.be>:
> Thanks to those who replied.
>
> I aptitude-purged gnucash, and deleted ~/.gnucash (I don't need those
> settings) (oddly enough aptitude did not remove that for me, although
> gnucash was successfully removed and aptitude gave no error message). Then I
> aptitude-installed gnucash again, and launched it: same result. It seems,
> furthermore, that my old settings are not entirely removed as gnucash was
> still able to remember what the last file open was (it asked me whether I
> want to open that file or create a new one, as before reinstalling).

I believe the last used file name is saved in gconf so will not have
been purged.

It might be worth running a file system check to make sure all is well.  Do
sudo touch /forcefsck
which makes an empty file of that name, then restart the PC and it
will do the check.

Colin