assistance with database error?

[John Ralls]

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