Another bug

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 02:49:45 -0700


Robert Graham Merkel writes:
> Robert Graham Merkel writes:
>  > Conrad Canterford writes:
>  >  > Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
>  >  > > Conrad Canterford writes:
>  >  > >  > There appears to be a threshold (I'm not sure yet whether it would
>  be
>  >  > >  > accounts or transactions), beyond which Gnucash goes into a proces
> sor
>  >  > >  > bound loop from which it appears to never return (certainly didn't
>  in
>  >  > >  > over 15 minutes).
>  >  > > This is likely to be a guile bug.  What version are you using?
>  >  > 
>  >  > Guile from (Redhat) RPM 1.3-10 which gives me libguile.so.4.0.0
>  >  
>  > OK, I've confirmed a problem exists (though I get different symptoms,
>  > it just crashes for me).
>  > 
>  > Thanks, I'll let you know when I track the problem down.
> 
> Rob, I've got a bug that is manifesting itself in the transaction
> report but appears to be a guile problem.  To reproduce, get a nice
> large data file and do a transaction report that contains every
> transaction in that data file.  Instant core dump.

Is there any error message on the core dump? Before we enlarged
the stack size, guile would print a very specific error message
if we exceeded the stack size.

dave