Can't get gnucash to start on Windows

[David Rush]

Mike:

I've never been able to get gnucash to start, so nothing to lose by deleting the .gnucash directory....

I deleted the .gnucash directory under c:\documents and settings\my_user_name then started gnucash again.  No change - brief splash screen, very brief tip-o-the-day window, then they both go away.

It did re-create the .gnucash directory, with books and checks subdirectories (both empty).

David

Mike C. wrote:
> Try deleting the .gnucash folder located under documents and
> Setting\(default name folder).  The program will regenerate this folder
> or if you are uncomfortable deleting it just rename it to .gnucashold
> temporarily.  I have this happen every so often so I guess something is
> getting corrupted but I can't find the culprit.
> Mike
> 
> David Rush wrote:
>> 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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