krb5_32.dll error

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 29 09:22:06 EST 2012


"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> writes:

> On 28 November 2012 at 9:34, Derek Atkins said:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> David Kruss <drkruss at yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I'm getting an error every time I try to bring up gnucash on my windows
>> > XP machine: 'This application has failed to start because krb5_32.dll
>> > was not found...' When I click 'ok' everything seems to work so this is
>> > just an annoyance.  It began a couple of weeks ago (I've been using
>> > gnucash for many years).  I saw the post in 2009 discussing the cause;
>> > but what is the fix?  I tried reinstalling gnucash to the latest
>> > release but it hasn't helped. 
>> 
>> I know of no reason that gnucash should depend upon Kerberos.
>
> Windows seems to think it does. Perhaps gnucash is trying to load it and 
> Windows just assumes failure is fatal.
>
> On my system that file is in c:\program files\gnucash\bin and renaming it 
> to .dlll results in the same error message the OP got when starting 
> Gnucash.
>
> My copy is dated 2012-07-15, which suggests it came with 2.4.11. It's 
> around 600kB. I will email a copy to the OP on request - assuming this 
> hasn't already been done by someone else and that the OP is prepared to 
> trust me.

Hmm..  In that case an uninstall/reinstall of GnuCash should replace the
file.

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-derek
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