Gnucash will not open

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Richard Barmann
<dick at stripingthetown.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/03/2014 10:47 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>>
>> sorry, I forgot to copy the list
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Richard Barmann <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.
>>>
>> That seems odd -- I am certain Kubuntu 14.10 "Utopic" should offer you
>> version 2.6.3. Did you install GnuCash from another source? (GetDeb, for
>> example.) You can use the "apt-cache policy gnucash" command in a terminal
>> to see where yours came from and whether there's an update available in
>> your active package sources.
>>
>> The symptom you describe has affected folks who have upgraded their
>> systems
>> and/or GnuCash (including retaining your home directory when reinstalling
>> the system or GnuCash). There happens to be a Guile bug that causes
>> crashes, and maybe it's affecting you. You might try the workaround
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764821
>>
>> You only have to delete the directory
>>      ~/.cache/guile/ccache/
>> and try to reopen GnuCash. (Note if you are new to linux the tilde slash
>> "~/" means your home directory, and the dot in front of the ".cache" means
>> the directory is normally "hidden" from ordinary file listings.)
>>
>> After deleting it, Guile will rebuild the items in the cache directory.
>> You
>> only need to do this once after an upgrade.
>>
>> If you have upgraded to GnuCash version 2.6.3 or 2.6.4 and deleting the
>> cache direcgtory doesn't help, open a terminal window and launch GnuCash
>> from there
>>
>>     $ gnucash
>>
>> and watch for the error messages that appear as the program fails to
>> open. Please
>> report back to the list (not to me!) with the results.
>>
>> This is what I get in a Terminal
>
> dick at dick-desktop:~$ gnucash
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 16 [catch #t #<catch-closure 8e7da20> ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 15 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 8e7da20>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 3513: 14 [process-use-modules (((gnucash price-quotes)))]
>  627: 13 [map #<procedure 8d77680 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)>
> ((#))]
> 3514: 12 [#<procedure 8d77680 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> (#)]
> 2783: 11 [resolve-interface (gnucash price-quotes) #:select ...]
> 2708: 10 [#<procedure 8e53f40 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2696:4 (name #:optional
> autoload version #:key ensure)> # ...]
> 2981: 9 [try-module-autoload (gnucash price-quotes) #f]
> 2320: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 9375c78 at
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:2982:17 ()>]
> 3001: 7 [#<procedure 9375c78 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2982:17 ()>]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 6 [primitive-load-path "gnucash/price-quotes" ...]
> In gnucash/price-quotes.scm:
>   41: 5 [#<procedure 98d96f0 ()>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> 3513: 4 [process-use-modules (((www main)))]
>  627: 3 [map #<procedure 8d77680 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)>
> ((#))]
> 3514: 2 [#<procedure 8d77680 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> ((www
> main))]
> 2786: 1 [resolve-interface (www main) #:select ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("no code for module" (www main))
> #f]
>
> ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
> ERROR: no code for module (www main)
> dick at dick-desktop:~$

that looks like the errors you see with the Guile crash.

Try

$ rm -R  ~/.cache/guile/ccache/





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