Thanks. That workaround worked for me, although the first time I tried it I got a backtrace with permission denied on /usr/share/guile/1.8/slibcat. Running sudo gnucash and opening the file, fixed the problem for subsequent non privileged invocation. I guess that workaround is indirectly alluded to within the other bug which this is a duplicate of.
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