John, FWIW I also occasionally get this error on MacOS using the default xml backend. Seems like it ignores my prefs and just opens a small Gnucash window about 1/6th normal size. Clicking "File" on the menu options and selecting my usual file from the last opened list re-opens the expected file.
Cheers David H. On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 02:08, john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > There may be some useful error messages in the trace file--see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile. If you're also on macOS and > using version 11 or later console output is available again after many > years of being sent to /dev/null. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console, > select your computer from the sidebar, click start streaming in the middle > of the window, and run your GnuCash or DBBrowser session. When done return > to Console, click the pause button, and use the search bar for terms like > gnucash and sqlite. > > I've been encountering the DBI error intermittently in the last year or so > too. I can't make it happen consistently enough to debug it, and it has > never stopped me from being able to open a Sqlite3 file. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > > > On Aug 2, 2022, at 8:47 AM, km22 <k...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > I have downloaded DB Browser for Sqlite and have been trying different > combinations of opening the file and remounting the drive and/or rebooting > the system. As best as I can tell, after I open and close the file in > Gnucash once, I cannot then re-open it with Gnucash nor DBBrowser. It > seems the first time I open the file in Gnucash causes there to be a lock. > I need to reboot the machine to open it again. I’ll experiment more but > any ideas are welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > Ken > > > > > >> On 2 Aug 2022, at 23:15, km22 <k...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am a new user of MacOS having recently bought a MacBook Air (after > many years of being a Gnucash user on Windows and Linux). > >> > >> I was able to open my existing GnuCash file and add some transactions. > But after closing GnuCash and trying to re-open the file I get the > following error: > >> > >> GnuCash could not complete a critical test for the presence of a bug in > the "libdbi" library. This may be caused by a permissions misconfiguration > of your SQL database. Please see > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645216 < > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645216> for more information. > >> > >> This looks like a very old bug that was resolved long ago. I see > comment #19 suggests to copy the file but that did not work for me. > >> > >> Any other advice I should consider? > >> > >> My system is: > >> MacOS Monterey version 12.5. > >> GnuCash Version: 4.11, Build ID: 4.11+(2022-06-25) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Ken > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > > ----- > > 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 > ----- > 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 ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
