Windows downgrade to 2.2.9 failure to start

[Jason Dunham]

OK. I found the gnucash.trace file and saw that my
%homedir%\.gnucash\config.user was the culprit.

Thanks for the help!

Jason

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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