Can't open book after upgrading to GnuCash 2.4.2

[Geert Janssens]

On woensdag 16 februari 2011, Stein Erik Berget wrote:
> $ gnucash --version
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure time.
> 
> GnuCash 2.4.2
> Built 2011-02-15 from r20253
> 
> I've tried to open a book 'prepared earlier' after upgrading. The book
> when I closed down GnuCash did have a few tabs open. It stops when it
> tries to render one of the reports, namely the "Budget Balance Sheet".
> I've tried to start without opening the 'previous file', then the program
> itself starts up fine. But when I open up the before mentioned book it
> stops when it tries to open that same report. When I start the program
>  from the command line I get the following in the console:
> 
> $ gnucash
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure time.
> 
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.17
> 
> ;;; WARNING (gnc:make-report-anchor: No such report:  Assets Over Time)
> 
> ;;; WARNING (gnc:make-report-anchor: No such report:  Liabilities Over
> Time)
> 
> ;;; WARNING (gnc:make-report-anchor: No such report:  Assets Over Time)
> 
> ;;; WARNING (gnc:make-report-anchor: No such report:  Liabilities Over
> Time)
> In current input:
>     1:  0* (let ((options #)) (let (#) (# option)) (let (#) (# option))
> ...) 1:  1* [gnc:report-template-new-options/report-guid
> "1d241609fd4644caad765c95be20$
> In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/report.scm:
>   197:  2  (let ((templ #)) (if templ (gnc:report-template-new-options
> templ) #f))
>      ...
>   267:  3  (let (#) (or # #) (or # #) ...)
>   268:  4* (if (procedure? generator) (or # #) (gnc:new-options))
>   269:  5  (or (gnc:backtrace-if-exception generator) (begin # #))
>   269:  6* [gnc:backtrace-if-exception #<procedure options-generator ()>]
> In unknown file:
>     ?:  7  (letrec ((dumper #)) (catch (quote ignore) (lambda () #) (lambda
> # #f)))
> In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
>   139:  8  [catch ignore #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure #f (key . args)>]
> In unknown file:
>     ?:  9* [#<procedure #f ()>]
> In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
>   142: 10* [lazy-catch #t #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure dumper (key .
> args)>]
> In unknown file:
>     ?: 11* [#<procedure #f ()>]
> In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
>   143: 12* [apply #<procedure options-generator ()> ()]
> In unknown file:
>     ?: 13  [options-generator]
> In
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/standard-reports/price-scat
> ter.scm: 59: 14  (let* # # # ...)
>    75: 15* [#<procedure #f (new-option)> ...
>    76: 16* [gnc:make-commodity-option "Price" "Price of Commodity" ... ...
>    80: 17* (gnc-locale-default-iso-currency-code)
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/standard-reports/price-scat
> ter.scm:80:7: In expression (gnc-locale-default-iso-currency-code):
> /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/standard-reports/price-scat
> ter.scm:80:7: Unbound variable: gnc-locale-default-iso-currency-code
> 
> 
> Is there a way to stop GnuCash to recreate the previously opened tabs?
> I've checked all the menues, but are not able to find it. I hope you guys
> (and girls) are able to help me out here.
> 
> Thank you for your great work on this software!

There is no nice gui way for that as far as I know. But there is another way 
indeed.

GnuCash keeps track of which tabs are open in a file stored in 
$HOME/.gnucash/books/

There will be one file for each book you ever opened and these files are named 
after the books' names, with some special character sanitizing. You have two 
choices now:
- if you don't care at all which tabs were open, you can completely remove the 
file associated to your book from the books directory.
- alternatively, if you only wish to close the report tab, open the file in an 
editor and only remove the section that describes the open report.

Hopefully this helps.

Geert