On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > > > > > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > > > > > > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open > > > > > > an account. Since these are our production financials, you can imagine > > > > > > this is quite a problem! > > > > > > > > > > > > The end of the gnucash trace file in debug mode shows: > > > > > > > > > > Can you please provide output generated by the crash when launching > > > > > gnucash from a terminal. > > > > Alas, there is nothing particularly helpful: > > > > jasiii@jasiii:~$ gnucash --debug > > > > gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time. > > > > > > > > Found Finance::Quote version 1.13 > > > > Segmentation fault > > > > > > hmmm... okay, a couple of options. > > > > > > 1) run gnucash from the command line: gnucash --nofile > > > which will open an empty gnucash instance. If that doesn't crash, then > > > try opening your file from the file menu at that point. I suspect this > > > won't work though, that it will crash. > > Indeed - had tried that early on and it crashes as soon as I try to open > > an account. hmmm... try this: launch gnucash with the --nofile flag. Then head into preferences and make sure the automatic running of scheduled transactions is turned off. Edit -> Preferences -> Scheduled transactions -> "Run when data file opened". Make sure that's unchecked. Then open your data file and see what happens. One of the problems in the past was a crash from sched txns running automatically. Again, it's been a while for me, so I'm just guessing... [...] > Argh!!! This is getting very frustrating - probably all my ignorance. I > rebuilt the debs and still get the same segfaults. Here's what I did > (from our internal docs): > > Some of the steps need to be done as root so we will need to create a > root console. Install the needed packages for building > apt-get -t lenny-backports install devscripts build-essential > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list by adding a Lenny Backports source repository > such as the following: > deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib > non-free > Make apt aware of the repository: > apt-get update > Other steps MUST not be done by root so we need another user console to > do the following steps. > We next need to download the source and rebuild it > mkdir /data/Tech/download/gnucash > cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash > apt-get -t lenny-backports source gnucash gnucash-common what output did the above command produce? > We need to install dependencies and this must be done as root so return > to the root console and do: > cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash > apt-get -t lenny-backports build-dep gnucash gnucash-common > Return to the user console > cd gnucash-2.2.6 > debuild -us -uc > cd .. > The two .deb files should be in this directory and can be installed > where needed > > > I then installed them with dpkg -i. It clearly stated it was replacing > gnucash and gnucash common: > > jasiii:/data/download/gnucash# ls > gnucash-2.2.6 gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.changes > gnucash_2.2.6-2.diff.gz gnucash_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz > gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.build gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.deb > gnucash_2.2.6-2.dsc gnucash-common_2.2.6-2_all.deb these are all version 2.2.6, the same one that was giving you trouble. You need the source for 2.2.9... A
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