Stack overflow in main.scm

[Phil Longstaff]

On October 23, 2009 11:37:04 pm David Reiser wrote:
> 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.

I just upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 and rebuilt gnucash from trunk.  I'm seeing 
this problem with webkit 1.1.15.2.

Phil