assistance with database error?

[Josh Quinnell]

Yes, I apologize that was just an awkward way for me to ask if there is
another way to get the database into 2.4.10. Open -> save causes this
problem, apparently without editing data at all. Prior I thought it had to
do with the few hundred transactions I entered during the switch.

As far as the slot tables (<slot:value type="string">), there are no dates
below 2010, there are however some date-like strings (e.g. <slot:value
type="string">20110223KB6241 STP614890421600003) and I'm not sure what they
are...

Thanks,

Josh

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:29 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:00 AM, Josh Quinnell <quin0167 at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have now manually gone through the date tags and there does not seem to
> > be any invalid data. All tags are 2009 - 2012. All prior databases saved
> > under 2.4.10 for windows share this problem. Does anyone have other
> > suggestions or methods to import an old database into WIN 2.4.10 to
> > circumvent this problem? Thanks
> >
> > Trace:
> > * 19:59:06  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1869 bytes.
> > The identifiers might not be very random.
> > * 19:59:30  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> > child process (No such file or directory)
> > * 22:30:26  CRIT <qof> qof_strftime: assertion `tm' failed
> > * 22:30:26  CRIT <gnc.import> [TransactionGetTokens()]
> TransactionGetTokens:
> > error, strftime failed
>
> Wait a minute, *import*? You don't import gnucash databases, you open them
> with File>Open. Import is for foreign files like QIF or OFX.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>