GNU Cash installation issue

[Ron Radke]

Thanks, Geert. That worked. And I didn't intentionally reply off the list. I
must of hit "reply" rather than "reply to all" without thinking.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be] 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 4:20 PM
To: Ron Radke
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: GNU Cash installation issue

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On donderdag 3 maart 2011, Ron Radke wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> For the problem with the laptop, there is not error message that turns up.
> The trace files seem pretty basic (the same ones the other computer has
> consistently been turning up -- except maybe the 3rd warning message):
> 
> *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2134 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> *   WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child
> process (No such file or directory)
> *   WARN <gnc.gui> error reading group Window 1 key PageCount: Key file
> does not have group 'Window 1'
> 
> Rebooting the computer did not help. The program will still not load my
> account file.
GnuCash saves the state of your windows when you quit. This state is saved 
separately from your gnucash datafile itself. You can find one file for each

data file you ever opened in 
c:\documents and settings\<user>\.gnucash\books

For some reason the state file associated with the book you try to open
seems 
to have corrupted data. The easiest would be to delete the state file and
then 
reopen your data file in GnuCash. Deleting the state file will also cause 
gnucash to forget which accounts and reports were open. So you will have to 
setup those reports again if you had any open.

> 
> I'll attach the path file to an email tonight when I can use the desktop.
> 
Ok, please send it to the list. Others may benefit from this thread as well
or 
jump in to help.

Geert