r21892 - gnucash/tags - Tagging the 2.4.10 release

[John Ralls]

On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Op vrijdag 27 januari 2012 12:35:33 schreef John Ralls:
>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> Op donderdag 26 januari 2012 22:42:20 schreef Derek Atkins:
>>>> Author: warlord
>>>> Date: 2012-01-26 22:42:20 -0500 (Thu, 26 Jan 2012)
>>>> New Revision: 21892
>>>> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/21892
>>>> 
>>>> Added:
>>>>  gnucash/tags/2.4.10/
>>>> 
>>>> Log:
>>>> Tagging the 2.4.10 release
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, this tag is missing the fix for the startup crash on
>>> Windows (which required to patch the Windows installer).
>>> 
>>> I was too late to add it (due to other issues in real life).
>>> 
>>> I have committed it now. It should help fix part of upgrade troubles on
>>> Windows, although I can't seem to start my locally built 2.4 branch
>>> checkout. The checkout is from yesterday, I haven't got time to check
>>> the currently tagged 2.4.10 to see if this one is also affected.
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry I can't be of more help here.
>> 
>> Geert,
>> 
>> I think you're the only dev with Win7 at the moment. I can re-tag 2.4.10 to
>> get the change you just committed, but if you're going to have time to look
>> at the Win7 crash over the weekend, maybe it would be better for me to hold
>> off.
>> 
> I'm sorry, my message may have been confusing. I only have Windows XP SP3. The 
> original poster reported the problem on Windows 7, and I neglected to mention 
> my Windows version in my reply.
> 
> Today I installed the 2.4.10 version that got built last night, but 
> unfortunately it still crashes with the same error.
> 
> I also tried on another Windows XP installation, figuring that my test VM got 
> corrupted somehow, but I get exactly the same results there.
> 
> I tried removing the .gtkrc, as at least for 2.4.9, it worked (even with the 
> Nimbus theme), but I can't get 2.4.10 to run. 
> 
> It's very unlikely I can continue to debug this shortly, so as far as I'm 
> concerned, you can retag now. The crash caused by the installation issue is 
> fixed at least, what remains it to figure out why the app crashes on libgdk-
> win32-2.0-0.dll.

OK, if it's crashing for you on XP, maybe it will for me too. I'll have a look in a bit.

Regards,
John Ralls