No access to accounts after a kernel upgrade

[Anthony Dardis]

(1) make sure your backups are safe
(2) it sounds like your Lenny is not well. Are other programs working ok?

If Lenny is not well, one thing to do is (a) copy all your data off the  
machine (perhaps using a live cd and copying to a usb stick) (b) do a  
clean installation of Lenny.




On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:05:31 -0400, Alan <alan_pollock at netzero.net> wrote:

>
> Greetings: I'm not a Linux pro, so please bear with me.
>
> I am running Debian Lenny, and GNUCash 2.2.6. Recently a kernel update  
> took
> place to 2.6.32-bpo.5-486. Don't know why I allowed it, bad move, made pc
> slow as a snail, so I replaced the kernel back to 2.6.26-2-486 (what I  
> had
> originally). Then I come to find that GNUCash is 'broken', not allowing  
> me
> access to my accounts (savings and checking registers).
>
> The first error I ran across was a message telling me the program  
> couldn't
> obtain a lock on an .xac file - I'm the only user. Clicking the "open
> anyway" option proceeds to a message informing me of Scheduled  
> Transactions
> (which I do have), where I'm then presented a main accounts screen...  
> minus
> the tabs for my savings and checking registers. Clicking on any of the  
> named
> accounts, such as Assets or Expenses causes the program to halt without  
> any
> notifications why.
>
> Like I said, I'm not a Linux pro, but I've close to 3 years worth of data
> entered into GNUCash, and while I have backups of all the data and logs,  
> I
> have no access and am quite upset about it.
>
> Any suggestions to point me in the right direction would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks.
> Alan