GnuCash 2.3.7 Crashing

[Derek Atkins]

Volker Englisch <Volker at englisch.us> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just build GC 2.3.7 (r18374) and it crashes with the following error:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0* [gnc:transaction->transaction-scm #<swig-pointer Transaction
> * 91003b8> #f]
>    ?: 1* (letrec (#) (gnc:make-transaction-scm # # # ...))
> In /opt/gnucash/share/gnucash/scm/engine-interface.scm:
>  226: 2  [gnc:make-transaction-scm ...
>  227: 3*  [gncTransGetGUID #<swig-pointer Transaction * 91003b8>]
>
> /opt/gnucash/share/gnucash/scm/engine-interface.scm:227:4: In
> procedure gncTransGetGUID in expression (gncTransGetGUID trans):
> /opt/gnucash/share/gnucash/scm/engine-interface.scm:227:4: Wrong type
> argument in position 1: #<swig-pointer Transaction * 91003b8>
>
>
> I can repeat this error with these steps:
> 1)  Start GC
> 2)  Cancel Scheduled transaction (running at startup)
> 3)  Enter TX in register
>     - Click in the date field and TAB to description
>     - Type a letter or two to autofill the description
>     - TAB to move to the next field  --> Crash
>
>     If I enter a description that's not auto-filled GC doesn't crash.
>
> I build GC r18372 yesterday and that's working without this problem
> but my build from a few days ago (maybe R18365 or so) crashed with the
> same error.

Is this from SVN or the tarball?
If SVN, did you start from a clean checkout?
Did you have another version already installed?

> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.

-derek
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