Re: Gnucash segfaults
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:09 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 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...
>
Thanks very much; I really do appreciate the help. My problem is no
opening the data file; that opens fine. It is opening an account.
Nonetheless, I tried this and had the same problem.
> [...]
>
> > 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
Well, perhaps I have a misunderstanding here. If I try to build 2.2.9
(what I first tried), running apt-get build-dep wants to bring in all
the libraries from testing that I'm trying to avoid; I might as well
install from the testing repository.
On the other hand, I thought that by compiling 2.2.6 with the newer
libglib2 libraries, it would call them properly and no longer seg fault.
Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks again - John
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