crash at startup

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:42:05 -0600


FYI, just to add a data point... I tried to see if moving to newer guile
would help the other problems I was seeing, and definately saw this
symptom as well. At that point, went back to what was on the system
already, since I didn't want to tackle two problems at once.

-- Nathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warlord@MIT.EDU]=20
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:46 PM
> To: Herbert Thoma
> Cc: mcondell@alum.MIT.EDU; gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: crash at startup
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> It's still dying in the price-quotes module, in all cases?
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> -derek
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> Herbert Thoma <tma@iis.fhg.de> writes:
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> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I just tried to build GnuCash CVS on SuSE 8.1 and I get
> > exactly the same error.
> >=20
> > SuSE 8.1 comes with:
> > guile 1.4.1
> > slib 2d4
> >=20
> > GnuCash 1.6.8 works fine.
> >=20
> >  Herbert.
> >=20
> > Matthew Condell schrieb:
> > >=20
> > > Hi,
> > >=20
> > > Unfortunately, I don't have a solution either.  I'm=20
> seeing the same
> > > problem with gnucash 1.7.2 on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE with=20
> guile 1.4.1 and
> > > I've tried both slib 2c7 and 2d1.  I have no problems=20
> compiling and
> > > running 1.6.8 with my current setup.
> > >=20
> > > Matt Condell
> > >=20
> > >=20
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> > >=20
> > > Hm.. You've got me stumped.  I have no idea what's going on here.
> > > Sorry.  Maybe someone else has some ideas.
> > >=20
> > > -derek
> > >=20
> > > <leet@quixnet.net> writes:
> > >=20
> > > > I have slib-2d4-1installed.
> > > >
> > > > Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Please be sure to CC gnucash-devel on all responses....
> > > > >
> > > > ><leet@quixnet.net> writes:
> > > > >
> > > > >>I'm using guile 1.4.1 .
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > >Hmm.  What version of slib do you have installed?
> > > > >
> > > > >-derek
> > > > >
> > > > >>Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>>What version of guile are you using?
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>-derek
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>leet@quixnet.net writes:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>>I'm hoping I have installed all the latest=20
> up-to-date components; is
> > > > >>>>there a way from within GnuCash to confirm that?
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>-Lee Thomas, leet@quixnet.net
> > > > >>>>[leet@localhost gnucash-1.7.2]$ gnucash --version
> > > > >>>>;;; The module name (ice-9 and-let*) is deprecated.
> > > > >>>>;;; Use (ice-9 and-let-star) instead.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>GnuCash 1.7.2 development version
> > > > >>>>[leet@localhost gnucash-1.7.2]$ gnucash
> > > > >>>>;;; The module name (ice-9 and-let*) is deprecated.
> > > > >>>>;;; Use (ice-9 and-let-star) instead.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>This is a development version. It may or may not work.
> > > > >>>>Report bugs and other problems to gnucash-devel@gnucash.org.
> > > > >>>>The last stable version was GnuCash 1.6.8
> > > > >>>>The next stable version will be GnuCash 1.8.0
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>Backtrace:
> > > > >>>>0* [#<procedure (module-name)> ((gnucash price-quotes))]
> > > > >>>>1* (let (#) (or mod-iface #) (module-use! # mod-iface))
> > > > >>>>2* [resolve-interface ((gnucash price-quotes))]
> > > > >>>>3  (let ((module #)) (and module=20
> (module-public-interface module)))
> > > > >>>>4* [resolve-module ((gnucash price-quotes))]
> > > > >>>>5  (let ((full-name #)) (let (#) (if already # #)))
> > > > >>>>   ...
> > > > >>>>6  (begin (if # #) (make-modules-in # full-name))
> > > > >>>>7* (if (or # #) (try-load-module name))
> > > > >>>>8  [try-load-module ((gnucash price-quotes))]
> > > > >>>>9  (or (try-module-linked name)=20
> (try-module-autoload name) ...)
> > > > >>>>10* [try-module-autoload ((gnucash price-quotes))]
> > > > >>>>11  (let* (# # # #) (resolve-module=20
> dir-hint-module-name #f) (and # #))
> > > > >>>>   ...
> > > > >>>>12  (let ((didit #f)) (dynamic-wind (lambda () #)=20
> (lambda () #) ...) ...)
> > > > >>>>13* [dynamic-wind #<procedure ()> #<procedure ()>=20
> #<procedure ()>]
> > > > >>>>14* [#<procedure ()>]
> > > > >>>>15* (let ((full #)) (if full (begin # #)))
> > > > >>>>16* [%search-load-path ...
> > > > >>>>17* [in-vicinity #{}# (gnucash price-quotes)]
> > > > >>>>18  (let ((tail (let # #))) (string-append vicinity=20
> (if (or # #) "" "/") file))
> > > > >>>>19  [string-append #{}# "" (gnucash price-quotes)]
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>ERROR: In procedure string-append in expression=20
> (string-append vicinity (if # "" ...) ...):
> > > > >>>>ERROR: Wrong type argument (expecting ROSTRINGP):=20
> (gnucash price-quotes)
> > > > >>>>[leet@localhost gnucash-1.7.2]$
> > >=20
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