GNUCASH Data File Name Question

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sat Nov 2 12:11:13 EDT 2013


On Saturday 02 November 2013 10:35:24 Jay Ridgley wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 09:49 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 November 2013 06:19:58 Jay Ridgley wrote:
> >> Johannes,
> >> 
> >> Apologies if you get two copies of this...
> >> 
> >> On 11/01/2013 11:20 PM, Johannes Kapune wrote:
> >>> Hi Jay,
> >>> 
> >>> what happens after you start GunCash and than try open file ...
> >>> and
> >>> choose your file?
> >> 
> >> Nothing
> >> 
> >>> What goes wrong you can normally read in the trace file.
> >> 
> >> Where is the trace file or do you mean *.log files and if so which
> >> one(s) I have 20 days of log files...
> > 
> > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Error_messages.2C_Trace_file
> 
> Geert,
> 
> I looked there and since I run Linux(Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS), as I said in
> my original post, I also looked at Tracefile.
> 
Oops, didn't pay enough attention...

> I am pasting the information found there (it is short):
> 
> jay at polar:/tmp$ ls -al *trace*
> -rw------- 1 jay jay 88 Nov  2 09:53 gnucash.trace
> jay at polar:/tmp$ cat gnucash.trace
> * 09:53:18  WARN <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi()] No
> DBD drivers found
> jay at polar:/tmp$
> 
Can you try and install at least one dbi dbd module (say sqlite) ? Even 
if you don't use it, I'm not sure gnucash will not bail if it's built 
with sql support and doesn't find at least one valid dbi driver.

> I use xml... This entry was created when I started the session I am
> currently running, using a file named gnu-data.gnucash.
> 
> So that was not much help. Is there another place I should be looking?
> 
> My question remains. How do I get gnucash to work with a file named
> gun-data (without the .gnucash suffix) again. Please see my original
> post.

You could also try to start gnucash with the --debug option. That may 
generate some more info in the trace file.

Regards,

Geert


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