Stack overflow in main.scm

[David Reiser]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:02 AM, David Reiser wrote:

> I get a stack overflow when trying to run a Cash Flow report in  
> gnucash built either from the 2.3.7 tarball or svn r18372. But it is  
> a different error in each case.
>
> In both cases, just launch gnucash ( I have about 8 registers open  
> by default) and pick the Cash Flow report. The progress bar nearly  
> completes before the crash.
>
> cash flow report from tarball-built (2.3.7):
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>   ?:  7* [gnc:find-file "base-uri" #]
>   ?:  8* [gnc:debug "gnc:find-file looking for " "base-uri" ...]
> In /sw/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
> 171:  9  [gnc-scm-log-debug ...
> 171: 10* [strify ("gnc:find-file looking for " "base-uri" " in " ...)]
> 159: 11  [string-join ("gnc:find-file looking for " "base-uri" " in  
> " ...) ""]
>    ...
> 122: 12  [apply #<primitive-procedure string-append> ... ...
> 124: 13* [loop #]
> 125: 14  (if (null? remaining-elements) (quote ()) ...)
> 127: 15  [cons "" ...
> 127: 16* [cons "base-uri" ...
> 128: 17* [loop #]
> 125: 18  (if (null? remaining-elements) (quote ()) ...)
> 127: 19  [cons "" ...
> 127: 20* [cons " in " ...
> 128: 21* [loop #]
> 125: 22  (if (null? remaining-elements) (quote ()) ...)
> 127: 23  [cons "" ...
> 127: 24* [cons "(/Users/dbr/.gnucash/html/en_US.UTF-8 /Users/ 
> dbr/.gnucash/html/en_US /Users/dbr/.gnucash/html/en /Users/ 
> dbr/.gnucash/html/C)" ...
> 128: 25* [loop ...
> 128: 26* (cdr remaining-elements)
>
> /sw/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:128:46: In  
> expression (cdr remaining-elements):
> /sw/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:128:46: Stack  
> overflow
>
>
> cashflow report from svn r18372:
>
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>   ?:  0* [#<procedure #f (window)> #<swig-pointer GncMainWindow *  
> 106000080>]
> In /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/report/ 
> report-gnome.scm:
>  79:  1* (let* ((report #)) (gnc-main-window-open-report report  
> window))
>  81:  2  [gnc-main-window-open-report 0 #<swig-pointer GncMainWindow  
> * 106000080>]
> In unknown file:
>   ?:  3* [gnc:find-doc-file "base-uri"]
>   ?:  4* [gnc:find-localized-file "base-uri" #]
>   ?:  5  (letrec (#) (# # base-directories))
>    ...
>   ?:  6  (or (gnc:find-file file #) (gnc:find-file file #) (loop  
> prefixes #))
>   ?:  7* [gnc:find-file "base-uri" ...
>   ?:  8* [map #<procedure #f (prefix)> ("en_US.UTF-8" "en_US" "en"  
> "C")]
>   ?:  9* [#<procedure #f (prefix)> "en_US.UTF-8"]
>   ?: 10* [build-path "/Users/dbr/.gnucash/html" "en_US.UTF-8"]
>   ?: 11  [string-join ("/Users/dbr/.gnucash/html" "en_US.UTF-8") "/"]
> In /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm:
> 120: 12  (if (or (not (list? lst)) (null? lst)) "" ...)
> 120: 13* (or (not (list? lst)) (null? lst))
> 120: 14* [not ...
> 120: 15* (list? lst)
>
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm: 
> 120:16: In expression (list? lst):
> /opt/gnucash-svn/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm: 
> 120:16: Stack overflow
>
> The only difference should be that the swig I use for trunk builds  
> is 1.3.40 vs. whatever version is used for constructing the tarballs.
>
> Mac OS X 10.6.1, Apple's gcc 4.2.1, guile 1.8.6, slib 3b1 (plus a  
> guile patch for slib committed to their trunk just after 3b1 was  
> released)
>
This error turns out to be a webkit issue.

webkit 1.0.1 and 1.1.10 work, 1.1.14 does not.

Dave
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David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net