GNUCash 2.4.13 crash on startup

[Dave Turner]

Hi all,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I'm having trouble with the VirtualBox idea - I don't have a windows
installation disk! My recent rebuild was off a recovery partition
which doesn't seem to be the same thing and I can't work out how to
make VirtualBox use this for installation.

There are a number of files in AppData/Local/Temp called
gnucash.trace.<random characters>.log that seem to get created when I
run GNUCash; all the ones created recently are empty (0 bytes). I
attach one from 23 August which mentions not being able to run perl,
although GNUCash was working for me at that time.

Yes, I also cleared out $HOME/.gnucash. It gets recreated when I run
GNUCash along with subfolders books, checks and translog, but no files
in any of these.

Cheers,

David


On 5 October 2013 18:22, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/2013 9:12 AM, Johannes Kapune wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you tried to look into trace-file?
>>
>> C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp (Windows Vista/7).
>>
>> I run 2.4.12 on Win7 professional and I have no problems.
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>> Am 05.10.2013 15:30, schrieb A.J. Bonnema:
>>> On 05/10/13 15:16, whwtan wrote:
>>>> Freshly installed from 2 months ago is extremely recent to me.
>>>>
>>>> I would help you if I could Dave, but all 3 of my machines here are
>>>> windows 8 machines even if I wanted to install your version to try it.
>>> Suggestion is to install W7 on a virtual machine (Virtual Box or VMware
>>> or even a MS tool voor VM) and install gnucash in there, just to check
>>> if it works. If that works, you could copy the data file to the VM and
>>> see if that is the problem.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Guus.
>>>
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> When you said you uninstalled your gnome settings, did you also
> uninstall your .gnucash settings?  If not, try relocating your
> .gnucash\books folder or renaming the .gcm file with the same name as
> your data file.  I think that file follows your data file if you move
> it.  There has been an issue with crashing after returning to a 2.4
> release of gnucash after trying a 2.5 release.  It was supposed to be
> fixed in release 2.5.5, but you may have found another exception.
>
> I am using Gnucash 2.4.13 daily in W7 64 bit and often trying unstable
> releases, but never on the same data file.  I have not seen that
> particular crash in my system.
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