Problems running 1.8.1 under FreeBSD stable

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Feb 22 14:56:25 CST 2003


You need to upgrade libtool (and libltdl) to version 1.4.x

-derek

Robert Crowe <bob at crowe.tv> writes:

> Hi, I've been running gnucash for a few years now on FreeBSD with
> great success. Recently I upgraded to 1.8.1 (though the FreeBSD ports
> system) and while the build worked ok, the result seems to have some
> serious problems.  I have a fair amount of programming experience, but
> very little with gnome/gtk and I'm hoping someone might be able to
> point me in the right direction.
> 
> Here's what happens:
> 
> When I start gnucash, i get the following:
> 
> ;;; The module name (ice-9 and-let*) is deprecated.
> ;;; Use (ice-9 and-let-star) instead.
> 
> This in and of itself doesn't seem to be a big deal, but might be an
> indicator (I thought perhaps I had an outdated slib or guile, but I
> re-built them from latest ports and installed and get the same thing
> now).
> 
> However, the big problem seems to happen when I try to open any
> register window. I get lots of lines like the following on stderr:
> 
> ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_edit_cb'.
> 
> ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_statusbar_cb'.
> 
> ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_stock_split_cb'.
> 
> .... Lots of these types of lines, followed by:
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data(): could not find
> handler containing data (0x8A8E800)
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data(): could not find
> blocked handler containing data (0x8A8E800)
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data(): could not find
> handler containing data (0x8A8E800)
> 
> .... Lots of these types of lines too.
> 
> I assume the two types of errors here are essentially the same thing
> being reported at two different levels.
> 
> The register shows up, but it is missing most of it's functionality:
> Visually it looks fine, but I can't sort, I can't split (I can click
> on the split button, but nothing happens to the register window).  One
> odd thing is that if I use the 'close' menu option, nothing happens,
> but if I use the close button, it does close the register.  Also, the
> transfer button seems to work OK (at least it pops up the transfer
> dialog).  I'm guessing that some of the functions may be routed to
> scheme through a callback mechanism and others are directly linked in,
> but thats just a guess.
> 
> Anyone have any idea of either a solution, or which things I should
> look at to try to narrow this down. I have tried to re-build most of
> the dependencies of this port (it's hard to spot them all however) but
> so far nothing is working.  I'm getting desperate here as I have all
> my finances for the past 2 years in gnucash and have really built a
> reliance on it.  Unfortunately, it's difficult to rollback to the
> previous version for me (I was using 1.6.something) but I guess I'll
> do that as a last result.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Bob Crowe
> 
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