GnuCash won't open after transferring data files from one box to another (3)

Ken Heard ken at heard.name
Mon Jul 5 13:59:58 EDT 2010


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Derrick Hudson wrote:

> In another message you stated that you now get a Segmentation Fault.  That means the program is trying to access memory that doesn't exist (or is otherwise inaccessible by the program).  One common cause is incompatible shared libraries.

Yes, that was my hunch all along.  Please see my latest post on this issue.

> The easiest way to try and downgrade glib is to look in /var/cache/apt/archives and see if you still have the older package on your computer.  If so install it with 'dpkg -I glib[...].deb'.  If not, and if it isn't available in any of your package mirrors, you'll need to find a place to download it again.

That will be my plan B.  As I mentioned in my latest post I will try to
compile for Debian Lenny GnuCash 2.2.9 and in the process deal with the
offending package.

> Usually when libraries have incompatible updates the package maintainer will put that in the package as a conflict to prevent this situation.  Note that it may not be easy to downgrade your glib because you may have many other packages that you updated and require the newer glib.

That is probably what will happen.

Regards, Ken Heard



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