RESOLVED error after upgrading to ubuntu 15.04

[Colin Law]

On 1 September 2015 at 09:47, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> ...
> This has been discussed around the time gnucash 2.6.5 was released.
>
>
> A few facts first:
>
> - This user cache issue can arise if you ever used gnucash 2.6.0-2.6.4.
> Older versions of gnucash didn't use guile 2 (and hence didn't use compiled
> scm files). And as of gnucash 2.6.5, we ship the precompiled sources
> ourselves. This way the shipped compiled files always match the shipped
> sources.
>
>
>
> - The issue happens because the precompiled scm files are still around in
> the user cache ($HOME/.cache/ccache/...). The moment you update to gnucash
> 2.6.5 or more recent, it's a one time action to delete this user cache. It
> will not be needed again for the next update because the user cache won't be
> generated by gnucash anymore in newer versions.
>
>
>
> All this means the issue tends to die out over time. Also not everybody is
> bound to run into this. It depends on the timing of your first use of
> gnucash and the release of the next version of gnucash you will be using.
>
>
>
> Given
>
> - this transient nature
>
> - the fact the user cache is not under direct control of the gnucash source
> code (it's auto generated by the guile library we depend on),
>
> - the effort it would have taken to safely delete files from the user's home
> directory
>
> the gnucash developers decided to ask the users themselves to do the
> one-time effort of removing this cache manually.
>
>
>
> In hindsight I regret we forgot to add this as an upgrade notice to our
> release announcements. In fact, I think I will still add this to the
> existing news messages.

Understood, thanks for the explanation

Cheers

Colin