Windows downgrade to 2.2.9 failure to start

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jan 13 19:49:57 EST 2010


Jason Dunham <jwdunham at gmail.com> writes:

> After the uninstalls, there are no Gnucash folders in the C:\Program Files
> or the C:\Program Files (x86) folders.

But there is probably still gnucash/gnome/gconf data in $HOME

> I searched the registry, but there are no gnucash keys in there.  This makes
> sense, because linux doesn't have a registry, so it wouldn't make sense to
> use it when porting the software over.

Bzzt.  There ARE registry keys used on Windows.

> There are also various gtk and gnome folders and files in my user folders,
> but I know some other programs like Pidgin use them, so I don't want to send
> the wrecking ball in there.

You might still have to do so.

> Thanks for trying to help.
>
> I guess I was wondering if there is any kind of debug logging or tracing
> possible with the Windows binary.  One hint that I can give is that it
> crashes out right after splash screen displays "loading stylesheets"

There's the gnucash.trace file.

> For now I am able to run it in the Virtual Machine that runs WinXP inside of
> Win7, but I'd like to help diagnose the problem.
>
> Jason

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-derek

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