OK. The “could not obtain the lock” dialog is expected after a crash.
Please open a bug and attach (don’t copy-and-paste) one of the several crash reports you will have accumulated. You can access them via /Applications/Utilities/Console. Select “User Reports” from the sidebar. Control click on a report name and select “Reveal in Finder” to get the file to attach to the bug. Regards, John Ralls > On Apr 15, 2018, at 5:41 AM, Subramanian Venkateswaran > <subramanian.venkateswa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for your mail. > > I could not find any transaction before 1st April 2009 with the approach you > said. > > I use Gnucash to record only personal finance. > > If it helps, it always informs me that there is a lock and when I choose open > anyway, it crashes with the error that I mentioned in the above mail. > > Regards, > Subramanian V. > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 7:24 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us > <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: > Subramanian, > > Another user tracked down the cause of that exception in his file to a bad > date, 206-01-02; it should have been 2016-01-02. In his case the error was in > an invoice. The exception was due to trying to convert ‘206-‘ into a number. > > I’ve changed the date parser logic to prevent the exception for 3.1, but in > the meantime you can scour your data using 2.6.19. You can use Edit>Find from > the accounts page to search for any transaction earlier than whatever date > you like as long as it’s after 1400-01-01. If you use the business features > also search Invoices and Bills (Business>Customer>Find Invoice and > Business>Vendor>Find Bill). > > Regards, > John Ralls > > >> On Apr 13, 2018, at 10:56 PM, Subramanian Venkateswaran >> <subramanian.venkateswa...@gmail.com >> <mailto:subramanian.venkateswa...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am having similar issues as well. >> >> Setup file : Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg >> MacOs : 10.13.3 >> >> I tried to execute Gnucash from terminal. >> >> I get the following error. >> >> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type >> boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<boost::bad_lexical_cast> >> >: bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target >> Abort trap: 6 >> >> The same file works perfectly fine in GnuCash 2.6.19 >> >> Let me know what more details needed. >> >> Regards, >> Subramanian V. >> >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 8:43 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us >> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote: >> >> >> > On Apr 13, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Roderick Averill <rod.averill...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:rod.averill...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg. I open the package with disc mounter >> > with no issue. >> > >> > When I try to open the application it never opens up and the dialog box >> > disappears. >> > >> > Any guidance would be appreciated. >> > >> > I’ve been using 2.6.19 for a while with no issues. >> >> Drag it out of the disk image to somewhere else, then double click on that. >> You can have both 3.0 and 2.6.19 installed on the same machine as long as >> they’re either in different places or you give them different names. >> >> If GnuCash 3.0 is crashing there should be a crash report. Open >> /Applications/Utilities/Console and click on “User Reports” in the sidebar. >> The reports are named with the application name and a timestamp. >> >> If it’s just quitting without a crash report, examine the trace file[1]. If >> there’s nothing informative there try running it from the command line >> (start /Applications/Terminal and type >> “/path/to/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash”, making the obvious >> substitution). The reason for the shutdown may be displayed on the terminal >> output. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-user mailing list >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org> >> To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> >> If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see >> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists >> <https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists> for more information. >> ----- >> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
