Gnucash Not Responding on close after report - Win7

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 30 09:04:29 EST 2014


On 11/29/2014 10:40 PM, Harold Tyber wrote:
> Thanks John, this gives me some options. I appreciate the very prompt
> response!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:22 PM
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Gnucash Not Responding on close after report - Win7
>
>
>> On Nov 29, 2014, at 7:36 PM, wrote:
>>
>> I am unable to close gnucash ver 2.6.4-2 on a windows 7 64 bit system 
>> after producing a report. When I attempt to exit the program, it hangs 
>> and eventually produces a message "not responding". I then have to use 
>> task manager to end the program. If I exit the program without having 
>> produced a report, it exits normally. Any suggestions or is this a bug?
> Yup, well known problem: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738477.
> You have 3 choices: Roll back to 2.6.3 (which is the current download link
> on http://www.gnucash.org), live without graphical reports displaying in
> GnuCash (they'll display fine in Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, you just have
> to export them) by using the latest maint snapshot
> (http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/gnucash-2.6.4-2014-11-25-git-abf
> 78a2+-setup.exe), or live with the hangs.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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Actually, there is another choice that John forgot to mention.

Switch to a Unix-like operating system.  GnuCash 2.6.4 runs very nicely
in most flavors of Linux.  Granted, there are other possible
complications, such as finding a pre-compiled package or transferring
your data files back to Windows, but some users might be willing to try
that option. 
The file transfer 'problem' is exactly identical to the well known
'complications' between OS's with all file types such as access and
security permissions. There are solutions that work for most users, I
just can't get that part working on my particular lan.  My fall-back
would be to use a USB memory key.  They have gotten really cheap.  You
can even keep your OS on a USB key so you don't need to mess with boot
managers.

David C


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