2.6.3 from GetDeb crashing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 27 May 2014 14:47, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On May 27, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Colin Law wrote:
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>> On 27 May 2014 04:05, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On May 26, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Jamestk wrote:
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>>>> Reply as detailed above (link doesn't work though)
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>>>> /Hi,
>>>>
>>>> there is a known problem that GNUCash crashes on close:
>>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728717
>>>>
>>>> It seems not to be a problem in GNUCash itself but in a library it uses.
>>>> It also crashes on Debian so it is also not the problem of Ubuntu or the
>>>> GetDeb repository.
>>>
>>> No, the problem *is* in GnuCash, and I've fixed it, but RedHat seems to have taken bugzilla down just as I was about to update the bug. See the email "Python Module and libdbi-0.9.0" the dev list for more details.
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>> If that is the reason that 2.6.3 from getdeb crashes on close on
>> Ubuntu 14.04, then is there a known reason why 2.6.3 built from source
>> in the same environment does not crash?  Libdbi is at 0.9.0-1.
>
> Most likely that you didn't enable python in configure, but to be sure I'd need to test on your computer.

That makes sense, I just used
./configure --prefix=/path/to/install/gnucash/to
--enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit
possibly the one in GetDeb did enable python.

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>> In fact the bug report does not mention crashing on close at all so is
>> this even related?
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> Umm, the *title* is "Ubuntu 14.04 - GNUcash crashes on close". How is that not related?

Oops, I got bogged down looking at the trace and missed the proverbial
wood for the trees.  Sorry.

All makes sense to me know, thanks.

One important point is that if someone manages to get 2.6.3 backported
or SRU'd on Ubuntu 14.04, or whatever the correct term is, that the
build must not enable python.

Thanks again

Colin

Colin