[GNC] Can't get v3.8 to work, Nor generate Expense Over Time Report on v2.6.21

Fri Feb 28 15:33:15 EST 2020

Hi Leo,

The warning you get is because gnucash can't find the last file you opened in 
the location it expected.
>From the path is suggests this is somewhere on your desktop.

You can ignore the warning. When you get the empty gnucash page, use File-
>Open to locate your date file again. File->Open works like it does on any 
other windows program. Your gnucash data file will have the extension 
.gnucash.

I will add that from the warning message I infer you have last opened a 
gnucash backup file rather than your real data file. I can see this because of 
the special format of the file name:
<name>.<extension>.<timestamp>.<extension>
A normal gnucash file it typically called
<name>.<extension>

I can't tell whether you did this already in gnucash 2.6 or not. It will be up 
to you to verify the different gnucash data files and see which one you 
modified last (you can compare their modified dates for that).

Regards,

Geert

Op vrijdag 28 februari 2020 21:11:58 CET schreef LEO BOLTA:
>  Hi Geert,
> Thanks for going to the trouble to load the 2.6.21 to confirm that that
> version would not generate the Expense Stacked Bar Graph and for giving me
> a list of options to best resolve my issues. I've decided to dispense with
> the old version altogether and give another attempt to download the 3.8
> version, which I attempted from the GnuCash site - which upon hitting the
> download button, transported me to site called SOURCEFORCE for the actual
> download (it seems). After downloading, all appeared problem free but upon
> clicking the GnuCash icon in my file manager desktop, the process came to a
> stop with a pop-up message which read: "The File
> c:\user\ownerA\desktop\GnuCash.gnucash.2020025185342.gnucash could not be
> found.  The file is in the history list, do you want to remove it? I
> elected the option Yes at first (assuming that it would transport the file
> to the correct location) but got another pop-up titled "Unsaved Book" but
> the contents listed no files in the body of that window, so I closed the
> program not knowing what to do next.
> 
> I started the program again but this time selecting the No option on
> 'removing' the said file but it still didn't get me any further into
> starting the program correctly.  BTW, using Windows 10.
> 
> Would you have any more suggestions which I could try?
> Thanks very much,
> Leo
> p.s., Should I need to resort to going back to v. 2.6.18 temperately...where
> could I obtain that specific version?  I was only able to locate the 2.6.21
> version in my initial search.
> 
>     On Friday, February 28, 2020, 10:54:23 a.m. EST, Geert Janssens
> <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
>  Hi Leo,
> 
> Based on your trace file, I see you are on Windows. So I have now installed
> the old 2.6.21 release on my Windows test machine and I see the same error
> message.
> 
> I have searched around in the code a bit and it looks like there was a
> change in that report between version 2.6.19 and 2.6.20. Unfortunately that
> change is incompatible with guile 1.8.8 (which is the version of guile used
> in gnucash 2.6.x on Windows). That means this report is broken on gnucash
> 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 on Windows.
> 
> So your options are as follows:
> 1. Go back to gnucash 2.6.18 if you need the report and can't make 3.8 to
> work 2. Continue with 2.6.21, not using this report.
> 3. Fix what's causing your 3.8 install to fail and move to that version.
> 
> Option 1 and 2 are pretty much without support. The 2.6 series is not seeing
> any updates any more.
> 
> As for the 3.8 upgrade path, I don't find any details on what went wrong in
> your previous messages. Can you give more details ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 20:02:32 CET schreef LEO BOLTA:
> >  Hello Geert,I tried to follow the path of instructions from the link that
> >
> > you provided and found this trace file which appear to record errors so
> > hope this is relevant to resolving the problem of generating the stacked
> > bar, expense report.Thank you,Leo p.s. My plan is to correct my current
> > problem using the 2.26.1 version, and if troubleshooting goes well and I
> > feel comfortable - give another attempt at downloading the latest 3.8.
> > 
> > * 09:30:49  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> > child process (No such file or directory)* 09:30:58  CRIT <GLib>
> > g_key_file_free: assertion 'key_file != NULL' failed * 09:33:38  WARN
> > <gnc.scm> In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/report.scm:
> > 755:  2* [gnc:backtrace-if-exception #<procedure #f ()>]
> >
> > In unknown file:
> >    ?:  3  (letrec ((dumper #)) (catch (quote ignore) (lambda () #) (lambda
> >#>
> > #f))) In C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/main.scm:
> > 114:  4  [catch ignore #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure #f (key . args)>] In
> >
> > unknown file:
> >    ?:  5* [#<procedure #f ()>]
> >
> > In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/main.scm:
> >  117:  6* [lazy-catch #t #<procedure #f ()> #<procedure dumper (key .
> >
> > args)>] In unknown file:
> >    ?:  7* [#<procedure #f ()>]
> >
> > In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/main.scm:
> >  118:  8* [apply #<procedure #f ()> ()]
> >
> > In unknown file:
> >    ?:  9  [#<procedure #f ()>]
> >
> > In C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/report.scm:
> >    ...
> >  758: 10  (begin (set! html #) (set! html #) (set! html #))
> >  759: 11* (set! html (gnc:report-render-html report #t))
> >  759: 12* [gnc:report-render-html # #t]
> >  718: 13  (if (and (not #) (gnc:report-ctext report)) (gnc:report-ctext
> >
> > report) ...) 726: 14  (let ((template #) (doc #f)) (set! doc (if template
> > #
> > #f)) doc) 729: 15* (set! doc (if template (let* (# # # ...) (if # # ...)
> > ...) ...)) 729: 16* (if template (let* (# # # ...) (if # # ...) ...) ...)
> >
> >  730: 17  (let* (# # # #) (if # # #) (gnc:report-set-ctext! report html)
> >
> > ...) 732: 18* [#<procedure #f #> #]
> > In C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports/category-b
> > a
> > rchart.scm: 691: 19  [category-barchart-renderer # "Expense Over Time"
> > ...]
> >
> > In unknown file:
> >    ...
> >    ?: 20  (letrec (# # #) (if # # #) (gnc:report-finished) ...)
> >
> > In C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports/category-b
> > a
> > rchart.scm: 272: 21* [account-destination-alist (# # # # ...) (9) ...
> > C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports/category-b
> > a
> > rchart.scm:272:7: While evaluating arguments to account-destination-alist
> > in expression (account-destination-alist accounts account-types ...):
> > C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\gnucash\share\gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/standard-reports/category-b
> > a
> > rchart.scm:272:7: Variable used before given a value: tree-depth
> >
> >    On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 4:12:00 a.m. EST, Geert Janssens
> >
> > <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> >  Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 10:01:52 CET schreef Colin Law:
> > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 00:59, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > > Leo,
> > > > 
> > > > There were changes in the storage locations of configuration files
> > > > between
> > > > 2.6 and 3.x described on this page on the wiki
> > > 
> > > If the OP ran 3.8 and then went back to an older version could this
> > > have messed things up?
> > > 
> > > Colin
> > 
> > It depends. The old configuration files are left in place and untouched.
> > So
> > after a conversion there are two copies of the configuration data: one for
> > 2.6.x and older (which are completely unchanged) and one for 3.x.
> > 
> > On the other hand there are a few changes to the data file format of the
> > gnucash book itself. So if the user successfully ran gnucash 3.8 and made
> > changes to the book itself, there is a chance gnucash 2.6.19 or older
> > won't
> > be able to open it anymore. This depends on which data the user has
> > exactly. However gnucash 2.6.21 should still be able to work with this
> > book.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Geert
> > 
> > 
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