Official Ubuntu GnuCash package segfaults on Ubuntu 14.04

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 01 May 2014 17:31:56 Herbert Mühlburger wrote:
> Am 2014-05-01 15:52, schrieb John Ralls:
> > On Apr 30, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Herbert Mühlburger
> > 
> > <mail at muehlburger.at> wrote:
> >> Hi Colin,
> >> 
> >> Am 2014-04-29 17:13, schrieb Colin Law:
> >>>> Some additional information on what might create this issue:
> >>>> 
> >>>> - the version of libdbi-dev on Ubuntu 13.10 was 0.8.4-6 - the
> >>>> version of libdbi-dev on Ubuntu 14.04 is 0.9.0-1
> >>>> 
> >>>> There are some deprecated functions which also prevent
> >>>> GnuCash from successfuly running the test suite on the
> >>>> current master branch.
> >>> 
> >>> I have had no problems compiling and running 2.6.3 on Ubuntu
> >>> 14.04 (from the source tarball).  What is it that is causing
> >>> you difficulty?
> >> 
> >> Compiling the latest version of GnuCash works fine. But if I run
> >> it I always the the same segmentation fault.
> >> 
> >> I cloned the official gnucash repository and followed the
> >> instruction for compiling it for Ubuntu 14.04
> >> 
> >> ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash
> >> --enable-compile-warnings --with-html-engine=webkit --enable-dbi
> >> make sudo make install
> >> 
> >> I think opening an sqlite3 gnucash-file results in the segfault.
> >> In the attached file you can see the full backtrace after the
> >> segfault. It seems that the libdbi-dir is not set properly by
> >> gnucash allthough everything (libdbi-dev, ...) is installed
> >> properly on my ubuntu box.
> > 
> > Try installing one of libdbd-sqlite3, libdbd-mysql, or
> > libdbd-pgsql. The problem looks to me like the latest version of
> > libdbi, the database backend, doesn't like being initialized with
> > no shim library available.
> 
> These libraries are installed already. It seems that the problem is
> caused through the not properly set "driver_dir"-variable in
> gnc-backend-dbi.c:1872 when using libdbi 0.9.x.
> 
> After installing libdbi-0.8.3 I could run GnuCash without problems. As
> you mentioned there seems to be a problem with the latest version of
> libdbi. Where is the GNC_DBD_DIR env variable being set?
> 
> Regards,
> Herbert.
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It would be new that this parameter has to be set. In previous versions of libdbi it was not 
needed if the drivers were installed in their default locations.

Anyway you can specify the --with-dbi-dbd-dir=PATH option to GnuCash' configure script to 
explicitly set it.

Geert