Crash

[Derek Atkins]

Can you file a bug with DEBIAN on this?  It might be something
specific there.  Obviously SOMETHING changed on your system
because gnucash must have worked at some point.

Thanks,

-derek

Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:48 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> This sounds like an XLib error.  What else did you change?
>
> I've changed nothing. However, I have found the following workaround:
>
> If I start gnucash with no options, it crashes with the error. If I
> start it with gnucash --nofile, and then open the file, it doesn't
> crash.
>
> Provided this continues, then I can live with it until Edgy is released.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>
>> Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jrposting at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > Gnucash 2.0.0 is crashing with this error:
>> >
>> > The program 'gnucash' received an X Window System error.
>> > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>> >   (Details: serial 73151 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>> >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>> >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>> >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>> >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>> >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
>> > function.)
>> >
>> > I've tried installing 2.0.1 from Debian Unstable, but there seems to be
>> > something wrong with the depository. The Edgy packages want to upgrade
>> > serious stuff like libc, which I don't want to do, and trying to compile
>> >>From source seems to require libguile-dev, which looks as though it will
>> > break other stuff.
>> >
>> > So, I'd like to get 2.0.0 working again (at least until the 26th, when
>> > Edgy goes live).
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Jeff
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