If you do not want to upgrade your live env, may I suggest combination of VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/), Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/) and Vagrant Cloud (https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search) to fetch pre-build "boxes"?
This combo works on any OS but If you are on Windows systems, you can download another Windows version and work on it for 30 days without needing a license. Discard the Vagrant instance after you are done... Be warned about malware that you have your virus protection regime up to date. While Vagrant boxes are from trust worthy authors, don't lower your malware/virus surveillance guard for anything. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:27:05 +1000 From: David Cousens <davidcousen...@gmail.com> To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Subject: Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair" Message-ID: <e6dfa7a35a82915a878c236aec9861298e059e6b.ca...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Try the following to get more information. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows_Debugging https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace Without more information no-one is going to be able to help much. Also search the archive from around the 3.0 release date. Hopefully you kept a backup of your original file before running 3.8 and only ran 3.8 on a copy? David Cousens On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 21:00 +0200, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote: > I installed GC 3.11 on a PC running Windows 10 21H2 and ran "Check & Repair > All" on my GC 2.6.19 XML file (twice). > Each time, GnuCash crashed after about half an hour. > The log files do not contain any warnings or error messages. > What now? > > -----Original Message----- > From: rsbrux <rsb...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2022 7:06 PM > To: 'gnucash-user@gnucash.org' <gnucash-user@gnucash.org> > Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3 for Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS > > > > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:41:33 -0500 > From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> > To: gnucash-u...@lists.gnucash.org > Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3 for Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS > Message-ID: <tebb5t$11i9$1...@ciao.gmane.io> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Interesting question. > > Perhaps try a 3.x flatpak? > > Otherwise, if you haven't yet jumped from 18.04 to 22.04 maybe an interim stop > at 20.04 will get you GnuCash 3.x. > > (Can you even go directly from 18.04 to 22.04? I didn't think it would even > give you the option) > > Be sure to review the Wiki about upgrading. You'll need to run Actions > Check > & Repair > Check & Repair All at each upgrade of a major version. > > Regards, > Adrien > << > Thanks for the tips! I came across the Flatpak possibility, but was dissuaded > by the apparent complexity of the description at: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak > > David's suggestion: > > > > Another approach to consider is using the 20.04 (focal) live ISO. Just put the > ISO on a USB and boot from that, then install gnucash in the live environment, > and using that to convert your gnucash data to version 3. That way you don't > have to try to install different versions on either 18.04 or 22.04. > << > sounded easier since I had already made a boot disk for Ubuntu Studio 20.04 > LTS. > Unfortunately, that didn't work.? I was able to boot from the live DVD and > install GC 3.8.? However, when I tried to run Check & Repair All, following > your suggestion, it never finished. Check & Repair gives no indication of its > progress in either 2.16.9 or in 3.8.? The menu bar and toolbar flash > occasionally while Check & Repair is running, but the only indication that it > isn't done is that the menu cannot be operated and there is no indication of > it having finished.? In the live Ubuntu Studio 20.04 environment, the GUI > would become unresponsive if inactive for as little as 15 minutes, even after > I disabled all suspend, screen lock and screen saver features, making it > difficult to just let Check & Repair run as long as necessary.? After that the > DVD would start working overtime.? I have had a similar problem with the GUI > becoming unresponsive in my freshly installed US 22.04, but only if I leave it > idle on the login screen. > At this point I plan to try installing GC 3.8 on a Windows PC to do the file > conversion.? Wish me luck! > > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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.
