gnucash in xp

[Harold]

Here is the trace file contents:

* 18:20:10  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1100 bytes.
The identifiers might not be very random.
* 18:20:22  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory)
end of file (added by me)

I have already deleted Gnucash. I will re-install it and try again. Then I will resend a trace file if I get the error again. I have tried it more than once already but will try again just in case this trace file doesn't shed any light on the problem. In the mean time I will delete all the trace files pertaining to GC before re-installing.


Thanks,
Harold



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From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Harold <hh6199 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: gnucash in xp

On vrijdag 19 augustus 2011, Harold wrote:
> I have been using Gnucash under Ubuntu for two or three years with no
> problems. So after getting a new pc because lightning got the one I was
> using, I decided to try Gnucash in my windows xp os. I installed version
> 2.4.7, reboot, start Gnucash, open a backup and make changes and do a
> saveas and rename it. Then I close and try to re-open the file and I get
> the error about parsing the file showing the path where the main file is
> located. I read the faqs about not saving the file with the same name as
> the backup that I had opened.
> 
> I noticed before I did the saveas that there was no save option. So I
> figured it would have the save option when I opened back up. Haven't been
> able to re-open the file.
> 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?
> 
No, I haven't experienced this yet.

To further debug this, can you list the contents of the GnuCash trace file 
from the failed GnuCash run ?
See http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file to learn 
about trace files.

> Is there a version better in XP than 2.4.7 stable?
> 
Not that I know of.

Geert