Instability in 1.6.5
Dave Williams
jdave23@dca.net
13 Feb 2002 14:41:32 -0500
Hello -
I was using 1.4 on my RH7.1 system with the Ximian desktop. Their
updater offered 1.6.5, so I installed it.
An initial problem was the guile library -- although the site says to
use a newer version (with libguile.so.9) Gnucash wouldn't start because
it was looking for libguile.so.6!
I solved that problem by forcing the older package of guile to install
on my system along with the newer one. No problem, Gnucash starts up.
But here's the thing: I'm using double-entry accounting and completely
standard categories. My old chart-of-accounts was imported, and
everything looked fine. I like the new features of 1.6.5, and was
looking forward to using it. But it crashed the moment I opened one of
my account registers.
When I restarted the program it couldn't open anything! So I rebuilt my
accounts from a backup I made in QIF format. Okay, there they were, but
almost anything I do (view a report, examine a transaction) causes a
crash. And every time I restart Gnucash I can't open my old accounts.
I've rebuilt them several times in several different ways. Always the
same thing -- crash and un-openable file.
I don't imagine there's a quick fix for this. Aside from going back to
1.4, are there any plans to build a more stable release? I don't know
where to submit bug reports, but I really do like the program. All I
can do is sit on my hands and wait!