GnuCash crash recovery

[Timothy J. Miller]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 12:45, Eric Schwartz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:51:09AM -0600, "Anthony W. Juckel" <awj@digitalgreen.com> wrote:
> > ** CRITICAL **: file gnome-font.c: line 194 (gnome_font_new): assertion
> > `face != NULL' failed.
> > I can't find the default fonts needed by Guppi.
> > In 99% of all cases, this means that there is a problem with
> > your installed version of gnome-print.

> It's a guppi problem (see bug #118123).  However, I haven't heard anything
> from the guppi maintainer.  The problem seems to be that guppi is searching
> for a font, but doesn't ensure that a package with that font is installed.

Specifically, Guppi is looking for a Helvetica or equivalent font
defined in gnome-print.fontmap.  On Debian unstable installations, the
needed font is included with the tetex-extras package.

> My problem is that I get this error on starting gnucash, which means that I
> haven't been able to keep my finances up-to-date for a couple of weeks now.
> I'd like to know what fonts it is that gnucash is searching for, so that at
> the very least I can install them by hand on my system, and best case submit
> a patch to the guppi maintainer in hopes of getting the package updated
> sooner.  How can I get this information?

It's not gnucash that's killing you here; you most likely have a
guppi-generated graph report open.  On startup, the graph is
regenerated, and guppi crashes for want of a complete gnome-print
installation.

I've complained to the various involved Debian package maintainers that
this is (basically) either a packaging error a broken dependency, but
I've not gotten a response.

-- Cerebus