Version 2.6.3 won't save when there are open Reports

[Derek Atkins]

Hi Roger,

Okay, there is clearly some confusion here.  ON the system that does not
work, did you ever install any version of gnucash by hand?

The error you are seeing is undoubtedly due to some old files still
sticking around.  Looking in /usr/local is just one place.  You can also
try /usr, but you need to make sure you only check for old files and not
files installed by your 2.6.3 package or guile itself.  Or it could even
be installed somewhere else if you set your GUILE paths differently.

I would focus your search on .scm files that could be interfering.

-derek

On Thu, August 14, 2014 5:47 pm, Roger wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> Actually, they are on different hosts but both running Xubuntu 14.04.
> Version 2.6.3 is on my desktop that replaced 2.4.X that I think I have,
> but maybe not, completely removed.  Version 2.6.1 is on a laptop that
> had no previous installation of gnucash.
>
> I just did a 'find' on /usr/local and no '*.scm' files were found.
>
> Roger
>
> On 14-08-14 05:03 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> On Thu, August 14, 2014 4:54 pm, Roger wrote:
>>> Don't know if relevant but I noticed in 2.6.1 that python-gnucash is
>>> not
>>> installed but is in 2.6.3.
>>>
>>> I tried uninstalling python-gnucash which also installed gnucash 2.6.3.
>>> I then tried installing just gnucash but it would not without
>>> installing
>>> python-gnucash.
>>>
>>> Both are again reinstalled and the problem remains.
>>>
>>> Could it be a problem with some preference/config files somewhere?
>> No, the problem is most definitely that your 2.6.1 and 2.6.3
>> installations
>> on the same host are interfering with each other.  You clearly have some
>> remnants of 2.6.1 on your system, even if you *think* you removed it
>> all.
>>
>> You should make sure you completely remove it.  I would recommend "rm
>> -rf
>> /usr/local" but you probably don't really want to run that command.
>> More
>> likely yuou should go through everything in /usr/local and hand-remove
>> everything that may be gnucash related.  In particular there is probably
>> some .scm files lying around still from that previous install.
>>
>> -derek
>
>


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