Gnucash will not open

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 03 December 2014 11:21:12 Richard Barmann wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 10:39 AM, Aaron Laws wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Richard Barmann
> > 
> > <dick at stripingthetown.com <mailto:dick at stripingthetown.com>> wrote:
> >     This morning when I tried to open Gnucash it will get to the
> >     small
> >     screen that shows the different stages on the bottom(like style
> >     sheet) then it show in my status bar and disappears. Do I need
> >     to
> >     reinstall? I am using version 2.6.2. I am in Linux Kubuntu
> >     14.10.Thank you for any help.
> > 
> > Is there any notable standard out or error output? I've had problems
> > that could be described this way before and taking note of the
> > output
> > has usually set them right. Perhaps also try removing the .gnucash
> > file it may be trying to open and open a backup instead?
> > 
> > In Christ,
> > Aaron Laws
> 
> The only think it does is display the splash screen, then bounce the
> icon a few times and disappear.

Is there anything in the trace file [1] ?

You may also want to start gnucash from the command line in case the trace file is empty. 
Perhaps gnucash is crashing before it has initialized the trace file.

Regards,

Geert

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile