Gnucash thinks data file is read-only, how to open it for writing?

[Ben Finney]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Ben Finney <ben+gnome at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > The file has the correct filesystem permissions to allow me to write it.
> > I can't find any lock file remaining in the directory. How can I
> > instruct Gnucash to open the file for writing?
>
> Might the enclosing directory be read-only?

    $ ls -ld foo/ foo/foo.gnucash
    drwxrwxr-x 2 bignose bignose  4096 Jul 18 06:17 foo/
    -rw-r--r-- 1 bignose bignose 89088 Jul 18 06:17 foo/foo.gnucash

> Are you using a SQL backend?

    $ file foo/foo.gnucash
    foo.gnucash: SQLite 3.x database

> What OS are you using?

Debian Jessie (which is the current “testing” suite for Debian).

What other diagnostic information can I provide?

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Ben Finney