Can no longer save transactions!

[William Colls]

On 11-07-11 01:55 PM, Michael C. Smith wrote:
> On 2011-07-11 03:56, Colin Law wrote:
>> 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
> Hi Colin,
>
> The permissions are 664, with user and group owners set to my username
> and personal group.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________

Did you check for available disk space?

Anything useful in the system logs (/var/log/*) ?

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