Unable to run 2.4 on Windows

ossiemanners ossiemanners at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 8 18:11:34 EST 2011


I managed to get it working by just running the executable as administrator

-----Original Message-----
From: ossiemanners [mailto:ossiemanners at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 02 March 2011 23:14
To: 'Geert Janssens'; 'gnucash-user at gnucash.org'
Subject: RE: Unable to run 2.4 on Windows

Thanks Janssens.
The logfile has only the two lines below. Has anyone else seen this problem
or got ideas of how to fix it? 
Thanks!

*   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1918 bytes.
The identifiers might not be very random.

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be]
Sent: 10 January 2011 14:33
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: ossiemanners
Subject: Re: Unable to run 2.4 on Windows

On Tuesday 28 December 2010, ossiemanners wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Windows Vista 64 Home Premium and am unable to run Gnucash
2.4.
> 
> When I run gnuchash.exe, I see the splash screen and the tip of the day.
> But just about when the splash-screen says it is loading 
> standard-reports they disappear with no error message. There are still 
> two gconfd-2 processes that hand around a few seconds afterwards and 
> then they terminate.
> 
> I tried deleting my .gnucash folder and also turning the firewall off 
> but that didn't help. I have uninstalled and re-installed 2.2.9 which
works ok.
> 
> Are there any log files that are printed out to help diagnose the problem?
> 
There is a standard trace file yes. See:
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file

Geert



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