gnucash 1.7.8 and ofx still doesn't work

[Nigel Titley]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 15:28, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Note that if you're running RedHat you can get opensp-1.3 from
> the openjade package...

Yes, this is eventually how I managed to get it working. I removed
OpenSP 1.5 and re-installed the standard RH7.3 openjade. Things then
started working.

> 
> -derek
> 
> gikotim at bluemail.ch writes:
> 
> > ok!
> > hier the output from strace:
> > 
> > 
> > 2653       0.000620 write(2, "Debug: gnc_file_ofx_import: ", 28) = 28
> > 2653       0.000460 write(2, "Opening selected file", 21) = 21
> > 2653       0.000176 write(2, "\n", 1)   = 1
> > 2653       0.002506 open("/home/rolf/buchhaltung/ofx/ktodata150_20030108.ofx",
> > O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9
> > 2653       0.000136 getpid()            = 2653
> > 2653       0.000038 open("/tmp/libofxtmpEKXAV6", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600)
> > = 10
> > 2653       0.000110 open("/tmp/libofxtmpEKXAV6", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE,
> > 0664) = 11
> > 2653       0.000548 fstat64(9, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=7144, ...})
> > = 0
> > 2653       0.000080 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> > -1, 0) = 0x41486000
> > 2653       0.000095 read(9, "OFXHEADER:100\r\nDATA:OFXSGML\r\nVer"..., 4096)
> > = 4096
> > 2653       0.000578 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
> > 2653       0.000378 rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...>
> > 2653       8.641281 --- SIGINT (Interrupt) ---
> > 2653       0.036410 +++ killed by SIGINT +++

Yes, this is very similar to the trace I get (and which is attached to
the bug history). Note it is hanging in rt_sigsuspend(). 

> > 
> > 
> > My kernel version is: 2.4.18-17.7.x (updated via up2date from RedHat)
> > I've also OpenSP 1.5pre8 and libosp.so.3.0.0
> > 
> > I'll downgrade and come back with the info.

Thanks. I'll check my kernel version when I get home this evening.

> > Greetings
> > Rolf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >-- Original-Nachricht --
> > >From: Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com>
> > >To: Benoit Grégoire <bock at step.polymtl.ca>
> > >Date: 22 Jan 2003 22:43:44 +0000
> > >Cc: Gnucash <gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org>
> > >Subject: Re: gnucash 1.7.8 and ofx still doesn't work
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 21:11, Benoit Grégoire wrote:
> > >> On January 22, 2003 10:31 am, Nigel Titley wrote:
> > >> > No doubt the same versions as he reported last time. Its caused by
> > >> > linking against very recent releases of OpenSP and seems to be some
> > sort
> > >> > of pthread related issue. Benoit is still looking at it.
> > >> >
> > >> > This is bug number #101738
> > >> >
> > >> > Rolf, can you report your system details against #101738 on Bugzilla,
> > >> > that way, we may get this bug moved out of UNCONFIRMED. I think what
> > >> > Benoit needs to do is fix libofx so it doesn't drag in the threads
> > >> > library (via OpenSP), but until we can get this bug confirmed, I don't
> > >> > think he's able to commit much time/effort to it.
> > >> 
> > >> It's not that I don't believe the bug exists, it's that I can't reproduce
> > >it.  
> > >> On my system, libosp.so.3.0.0 (from OpenSP 1.5, 1.5pre8, and libosp.so.2.0.0
> > >
> > >> from 1.5pre5) also links with libpthread.so.0, yet I don't get the bug.
> > >
> > >Thanks, Benoit. That's useful information. What kernel versions are you
> > >running (both Benoit and Rolf)? I believe this may be tickling a kernel
> > >threads signal handling bug? Hence my suggestion about somehow avoiding
> > >the whole threads issue (not a fix, I know, but a possible workaround).
> > > 
> > >> Rolf, you may wan't to try downgrading to OpenSP 1.3.x to see if it allows
> > >you 
> > >> to avoid this bug like it does for Nigel, and report your findings.
> > >
> > >That would be quite useful. Also, Rolf, could you try running gnucash
> > >under strace and let us see the last dozen or so lines before it goes to
> > >sleep.
> > >
> > >Between us we'll get this one cracked :-)
> > >
> > >Nigel
> > >
> > >
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