Gnucash-2.2.3 crash during splash page

[Jim Parker]

Josh,
  Thanks!! I fixed guile and slib and now I'm up and running!! I agree it
wasn't trivial, but neither was building gnucash from scratch!  I learned
alot about *nix during this.

Again, thanks.
--Another satisfied user.

On 1/30/08, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
>
> "Jim Parker" <jimparker96313 at gmail.com> writes:
> >   My first post to this list.  I have found the site very helpful in
> > resolving issues I have had with my build of gnucash 2.2.3.  However,
> now I
> > am stumped.
> >
> > I completed a relatively clean compile from source of gnucash-2.2.3 and
> > during the startup the splash screen shows up and I get the tip of the
> day
> > and various style sheets are loading.  During that process, the program
> > crashes with the following output to the terminal.  I'm unfamiliar with
> the
> > code and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for
> things
> > to check:
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Jim
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > In current input:
> >    1:  0* [gnc:report-menu-setup]
>
> […snip…]
>
> >     ...
> >    ?: 15  (letrec (# # #) (do () # #) (cond #) ...)
> >    ?: 16* (case fc ((#\l #\l #\h) (set! type-modifier fc)
> (must-advance)))
> >
> > <unnamed port>: In procedure memoization in expression (case fc (# #
> #)):
> > <unnamed port>: Duplicate case label #\l in expression (case fc ((#\l
> #\l
> > #\h) (set! type-modifier fc) (must-advance))).
>
>
> See <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196417>.
>
> In short, you need to get a version of guile and a version of slib that
> play
> nicely together, installed in the right order.  Since slib especially is
> really dependent on distributions doing the right thing at install-time,
> this
> can be non-trivial. :(
>
>
> --
> ...jsled
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