Can't get gnucash to start on Windows

[David Rush]

Thanks for your suggestion about checking my Windoze firewall, Charlie, but no luck.  GnuCash was already in the list of the firewall's exceptions.  I also disabled the firewall entirely and tried again, but same result - splash screen for maybe a second or so, some other window starts to open but closes too soon to see anything other than the location and approximate size of the window (it's a bit smaller than the splash).

Hey, I've tried repeatedly opening gnucash, and a couple of times I've been able to get a very brief glimpse of the window's title - I think it's a "tip of the day" window.

David

C.E. Morrison wrote:
> Make sure your firewall is allowing gnucash.  I seem to remember there
> are two files that appear to need to access a network on startup and if
> your firewall is preventing them from doing what they need to, the
> application won't start.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> David Rush wrote:
>> Hi.  I'm new to gnucash.
>>
>> I've installed 2.2.9 on Windows XP.  It offers to start gnucash at the
>> end of the installation, and I keep that checked, but it never starts.
>>
>> When I try starting from either the desktop icon or from the
>> Start,Programs menu, I get the gnucash splash screen for an instant, I
>> see another window start to open, but it closes before it even gets
>> done drawing and the splash screen goes away.  This all happens in a
>> second or two.  No overt error messages.
>>
>> Task manager shows that I get a gnucash-bin.exe for a fraction of a
>> second, then I'm left with two gconfd-2.exe processes for a while
>> (several seconds at least) before they quietly disappear.
>>
>> I have several gnucash.trace.* files in my tmp directory now, all of
>> them 0 bytes in size.  I also have a gconfd-Username directory, and
>> for the several seconds while the two gconfd-2.exe processes are still
>> around there's a lock directory with an ior file in it.  Once the
>> gconfd-2.exe processes disappear, so does the lock directory.
>>
>> I did have the MS Visual C++ 2005 redistributable package installed. 
>> I've recently installed the 2008 redistr. package, but it made no
>> obvious difference.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> David
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