[GNC] 3.8 crash on Ubuntu 18.04

[Colin Law]

Looking at the report I think that a fix has now been merged, so hopefully
it will be fixed in the next release of gtk (or maybe even in the current
release).

Colin


On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, 23:58 Fred Smith, <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 02:59:09PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 18, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > My wife just switched from Win7 to Ubunt 18.04. she has used GnuCash
> for many  years and is comfortable with what she uses it for.
> > >
> > > I built a 3.8 for here when I set up the system, built on that system,
> > > and until today it has been working fine (built it about 1.5 weeks
> ago).
> > >
> > > All of a sudden today, when she opens an account and attempts to add a
> new entry OR to modify an existing entry she gets an instant crash.
> > >
> > > Here are some of the pertinent entries from system logs:
> > >
> > > from syslog:
> > > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138663]
> gnucash[20215]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f6d11dca1f2 sp 00007ffdbdec1418
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f6d11d83000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138675] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002039]
> gnucash[20549]: segfault at f0 ip 00007fa57dbda1f2 sp 00007fff21b341c8
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7fa57db93000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002051] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801728]
> gnucash[20577]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f233fa8a1f2 sp 00007fff789f3c28
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f233fa43000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801740] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > >
> > > from kern.log
> > > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138663]
> gnucash[20215]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f6d11dca1f2 sp 00007ffdbdec1418
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f6d11d83000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138675] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002039]
> gnucash[20549]: segfault at f0 ip 00007fa57dbda1f2 sp 00007fff21b341c8
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7fa57db93000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002051] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801728]
> gnucash[20577]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f233fa8a1f2 sp 00007fff789f3c28
> error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f233fa43000+eb000]
> > > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801740] Code:
> fe ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48
> 8b 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00
> 0f 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89h
> > >
> > > Can anyone help here?
> > >
> > > Is there any other info I can provide, or other steps I can do to help
> > > diagnose this?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > It's probably https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/61. If you know
> how you can take a stack trace to be sure. The work-around is to set
> GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus in the environment.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
>
> John, thanks for the pointer! problem now solved.
>
> from that page, it looks like it is not a new problem, wondefr if the GTK
> maintainers will ever fix it.
>
> Fred
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