gnucash locks when running on a remote workstation

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 linas@linas.org wrote:

> wow, that makes me scratch my head.

Linas,

  Me, too. Another reason there's less and less hair on it.

> does the server have a screen attached to it?  If you run gnucash
> on the server displayuing on the server screen, does it also crash?

  Sure. The "server" is another workstation, the one on which I work. We
export and nfs-mount different filesystems to share apps and data across the
network.

> what version of gnucash is on the server?

  We've been running 1.4.5; I just upgraded the rpm today to 1.4.8.

> To further debug, you need to send us the following info:
>
> installd gdb (gnu debugger) if not already installed.

  It's there.

> at the command line:  gdb gnucash
> you get a prompt, type: r    (for 'run')
>
> after it crashes, type 'where', and mail in that listing.
> ('where' provides a stack trace)

  Doesn't running strace gnucash do the same thing? I ask only because I've
heard of strace, but I've not had need -- yet -- to run it.

  Regardless, we'll run gnucash under the debugger later today.

> you may also want to examine the shared libraries you have installed,
> use 'ldconfig -p', its possible you have an old library on the server.

  Hmmm. I have 486 libraries noted. I've no idea for which one(s) I need to
check, nor how to tell how old they are. But, everything installed by rpm
should be updated completely, AFAIK.

More later. Thanks,

Rich

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