error parsing

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Vaughn Family Farm, Bryant" <bcvaughn at windstream.net> writes:

> Contents of the trace file, after the parsing error.  Thanks, Bryant
>
> * 06:17:03  WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 1320 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> * 06:17:15  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> child process (No such file or directory)
> * 06:17:15  CRIT <gnc.io> [dom_tree_handlers_all_gotten_p()] Not defined and
> it should be: trn:date-posted
> * 06:17:15  CRIT <gnc.io> [dom_tree_generic_parse()] didn't find all of the
> expected tags in the input
> * 06:17:15  WARN <gnc.backend> [gnc_xml_be_load_from_file()] Syntax error in
> Xml File C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\Bryant's
> Documents\gnubackup.gnucash
[ snip]

>> There are a few corner cases that can lead to a parse error on Windows.
>>
>> To get a better idea of what is going on, can you post the contents of the
>> gnucash trace file that is generated right after the parse error ? Follow
>> the instructions in this link to find the trace file:
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file
>>
>> Geert

I believe this is one of the corner cases, due to a bug when you assign
an opening balance on Windows.  The bug has been fixed in trunk but was
never back-ported to 2.4.  Alas, the only way to fix this is to either
hand-edit your data file to fix the problem or to revert to a backup and
re-enter the data but *not* assign an opening balance when you create
the accounts, but rather create the opening balance by hand afterwards.

I'm sure Geert will respond with the BugID for more info.

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-derek

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