Can no longer save transactions!

[Colin Law]

On 11 July 2011 01:51, Michael C. Smith <michael.c.smith at alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with GnuCash 2.2.9 (built from r17949M on 2010-03-23)
> running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (and up to date with patches).
>
> Starting this afternoon, I can no longer save any new transactions.  I can
> create them in the registers, click "save" (and have the "save" progress bar
> work to completion), but when I go to quit GnuCash, I get a warning dialog
> (with 3 buttons) that I should save my work before exiting (or loose the
> transactions entered over the previous few minutes).  When I click "save" in
> that dialog, it takes a few moments and then I'm presented with a two button
> dialog giving me the choice of saving or continuing (and loosing my
> transactions).  Saving takes a few more moments before bringing be back to
> the two-button dialog.  The only way to terminate the "loop" is to chose to
> loose the transactions.

Have you somehow made the accounts file read only?  If you right click
the accounts file in nautilus (the file browser), select properties
and then Permissions you should see yourself as the Owner and Read and
Write for the Access permissions for yourself.

Colin