[GNC] Operation is still running, wait for it to complete before quitting

[Richard Dawson]

Crossed my fingers, closed GnuCash, and restarted.  It started up OK, 
and all the data appears to be intact.  I've been using GnuCash since 
1998, and this is the first glitch I have encountered.  Not a bad record.

Richard

On 2/13/23 16:34, David Carlson wrote:
> I have occasionally seen that release of GnuCash do something similar 
> to that when it crashes.  In my case I just re-start it and click open 
> anyway at the prompt.  Then I check to see if whatever I was doing 
> completed or if I lost any recent keystrokes.  Usually there is little 
> or nothing missing because I do frequent saves before starting 
> anything involving a lot of keystrokes.
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 5:52 PM Richard Dawson <rcdawson at att.net> wrote:
>
>     On 2/13/23 14:06, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>     > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 3:46 PM Richard Dawson
>     <rcdawson at att.net> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Several hours after after successfully completing
>     reconciliation, I
>     >     attempted to add another transaction, and I was greeted with the
>     >     message, "Operation is still running, wait for it to
>     complete before
>     >     quitting." I've been waiting for an hour or so, and there is
>     no hard
>     >     drive activity.  Attempting to save gives the same message.
>     >
>     >       If I recall correctly, I had saved the file when I
>     completed the
>     >     reconciliation,  as that is my general practice, but I left the
>     >     machine
>     >     on with the file open.
>     >
>     >     How should I proceed?
>     >
>     >
>     > Unless your system is very very slow, I wouldn't expect ANYTHING in
>     > GnuCash to take more than a few seconds to complete, though I am
>     sure
>     > there must be exceptions. I would strongly suspect a hardware or
>     > network problem in your case.
>     >
>     > Can you determine and tell us the version of GnuCash you're running
>     > (and where you got it, if not from an official source), and can you
>     > tell us what operating system is running on your computer?
>     >
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>     GnuCash 4.8, Build ID 4.8a+(2021-09-28)  I installed it from Ubuntu
>     repository.
>
>     My operating system is Kubuntu 22.04
>
>     I've been running this version of gnucash for several years, since it
>     became available via Ubuntu.
>
>     I agree that it shouldn't take this long...  It's now been several
>     hours
>     more!
>
>     Richard
>
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