GNUCash Crashing following editing of Account Summary

[Derek Atkins]

foxylady337 <hendry.michael at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks, Dan.
>
> I fear that a new version of GnuCash won't solve my problem - given that
> it's probably a routine update of Ubuntu 10.04 which caused it in the first
> place, rather than a fault which has suddenly appeared in GnuCash 2.4.7
> after 8 months of satisfactory performance. I re-installed the same
> (Ubuntu-supported) version of GnuCash in case I'd somehow corrupted some
> part of the product, but got exactly the same error.
>
> My laptop has Ubuntu 11.10, which has a different UI from Ubuntu 10.04, and
> may not have broken GnuCash for this reason.
>
> I'm not in a great hurry to upgrade my desktop from 10.04, as lots of other
> things might get broken in the process. I'm not a great fan of the Unity
> interface either.
>
> I'll try to pursue it with Canonical in the first instance.

Another thing you can try is moving your ~/.gnucash file out of the
way.  This will cause GnuCash to lose its history of open windows and
saved reports, but it might get you back to something that works.

Note that this will not remove your data, just some set of saved state.

Also note that I said "move it out of the way", not "remove it" -- in
case you need to recover some data from the old state files.

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-derek

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