Cannot start gnuCash after win7 lockup
Len Goddard
kadath at kadath.plus.com
Thu Sep 5 16:45:54 EDT 2013
A couple of days ago several apps on my Win 7 system locked up. I
killed what I could but I couldn't clear the logjam so I rebooted.
Windoze locked during shutdown and I had eventually to force a
powerdown. Several applications (innocent bystanders) were affected -
uTorrent lost its configuration and the encrypted KeePass database was
corrupted. gnuCash seems to have faired the worst. When I attempt to
start it, either via the icon or by clicking a .gnucash file, the splash
screen and tips screen come up, then go away. I looked through some
similar but old threads on this list but nothing seemed to help. In
particular, I have
1. reinstalled
2. uninstalled, deleted everything that the uninstall left behind then
installed
3. run gnucash-launcher.cmd from a command prompt
All this gave the same result, splash+tips then nothing.
Then I ran gnucash-launcher.cmd from a Cygwin bash shell and it gave me
the new user wizard. I declined to create a new account and opened the
old one from the menu which worked fine. So, the code appears to be
working and the data file appears to be intact. I am guessing that
somewhere there is a corrupt config file somewhere which is bypassed
when I run it under Cygwin - any suggestions?
I really hate windows. Long term gnuCash will be migrated to a linux
machine but that is not practical in the short term.
Thanks,
Len
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