gnucash 1.8.8 start up error

[Derek Atkins]

This looks like the "RHEL3 guile doesn't have primitive-fork"
problem.  The only rememdy I know of is to rebuild the RPM
from the SRPM.

-derek

Michael Burklund <mburklund at yahoo.com> writes:

> Does anyone know how to fix this runtime error...looks
> like it has something to do with guile 1.6.4-8 which I
> have installed?
>
> Here's the error:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0* [start-program]
> In
> /usr/local/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/price-quotes.scm:
>  224: 1* (set! program (gnc:run-sub-process #f
> gnc:*finance-quote-check* ...))
>  224: 2* [gnc:run-sub-process #f
> "/usr/local/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check" ...]
> In
> /usr/local/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:
>   46: 3  (let (# #) (if # #f #))
>    ...
>   60: 4  (if (not #) (begin # # #) (begin # # # ...))
>   60: 5* [not ...
>   60: 6*  [zero? #f]
>
> /usr/local/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20:
> In procedure zero? in expression (zero? pid):
> /usr/local/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20:
> Wrong type argument in position 1: #f
>
> thanks for your help,
>
> Mike
>
>
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