gnucash won't open

houndhen hh6199 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 30 13:41:15 EDT 2009



Maf. King wrote:
> 
> On Friday 30 October 2009 16:14:11 houndhen wrote:
>> Did a search but didn't see anything that solved my problem.
>>
>> I got the message about it could not get a lock on the database and I
>> told
>> it to open anyway and that didn't help. Then I went to my home page where
>> the database is kept and deleted the LCK and LNK files that are zero
>> bites.
>> Now it acts like it is going to open but it doesn't. I can see the
>> activity
>> in the bar at the bottom before it opens but then it goes away. Now it is
>> back to not gettting a lock on the file. I clicked on "open anyway" but
>> nothing happens. I just tried to open it from the console and after
>> clicking on "open anyway" I get the message 'Segmentation fault'.
>>
>> I am running Mepis 8 and Gnucash 2.2.6-2 version. I was just using it
>> last
>> night with no problems. How do I get it to open?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Harold
> 
> Hi Harold
> 
> Do you have scheduled transactions (SX) which auto-run?
> 
> If so, one of these may be causing your problem.
> Start GC with the --nofile option, edit the prefs to disable auto-running
> of 
> SXes, File->Open your data file and see if there is an SX due to run
> today, 
> and try to figure out what is wrong with it (changed one of the accounts?)
> 
> HTH,
> Maf.
> 
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> 
Here is what I got. A new blank file opened and when I closed it the Found
Finance::Quote version 1.13 was the output.

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

Found Finance::Quote version 1.13
gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "ct" unregistered
gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "dbio" unregistered


Not sure I am using this forum correctly. It is quite different from what I
have used in the past.

Harold
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