gnucash-1.8.4: 2 fatals, 1 log failure so far (FreeBSD-5.1-CURRENT)

[Derek Atkins]

This sounds like a Libc problem..

-derek

Chris Shenton <chris at shenton.org> writes:

> Installed GnuCash and GnuCash-docs from ports on FreeBSD-5.1:
> 
>   FreeBSD PECTOPAH.shenton.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Tue Jul  1 19:48:37 EDT 2003     chris at PECTOPAH.shenton.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PECTOPAH  i386
> 
> Ports is cvsupped nightly and I just did a portupgrade -R gnucash'*'
> to rebuild all recursive dependencies. Here's what the system thinks
> it has:
> 
>   chris at PECTOPAH<102> pkg_info -c gnucash'*'
>   Information for gnucash-1.8.4:
>   Comment:
>   Quicken-like money and finance manager
> 
>   Information for gnucash-docs-1.8.1:
>   Comment:
>   Documentation for gnucash
> 
> 
> I'm a gnucash newbie (used it a bit a year back but haven't since) but
> a longtime FreeBSD and UNIX guy; I plead ignorance to all things Gnome :-(.
> 
> Here are some major problems I've just noticed trying to use it.
> First, I removed old cruft from my long-ago runs so I can work the
> druid (which didn't exist back then).
> 
> 0. First it takes over a minute to startup, with top showing guile
>    consuming lots of CPU and memory? This on a 1.8GHz box with 700MB
>    RAM, tho I am using it across the LAN with X11.
> 
> 1. I follow the pop-up tip and click Help to check the Tutorial.
>    Screen gets blown away, program dies.  The terminal I started from
>    says:
> 
>     Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
>     Abort
> 
> 2. I run gnucash again and do NOT ask for help.  I start creating some
>    simple accounts and populating from my checkbook.  Periodically,
>    the xterm I started it from complains (non-fatally):
> 
>     Error: xaccOpenLog(): cannot open journal 
>              13 Permission denied
> 
>    It does NOT tell me what file it's trying to open so I can't check
>    permissions and such. I'm running it from my homedir so don't
>    expect there should be a problem.
> 
>    I cross my fingers and do a SaveAs; it does save the file.
> 
> 3. Now I've forgotten what button I clicked but I think it was a Print
>    (very sorry here, lost track).  Again the program died and
>    disappeared, again reporting on the xterm:
> 
>     Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
>     Abort
> 
> 
> Any clues what might be causing this?  How I could track down what
> it's trying to do that fail so quickly?
> 
> I'm trying a "truss gnucash" right now -- the splash screen hasn't
> come up yet -- and most of the lines I see are reporting "ERR#2 'No
> such file or directory'", like:
> 
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)        ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)        ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)        ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)        ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)                  ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("/usr/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666)              ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> open("libXpm.la",0x0,0666)                       ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> access("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.so",4)     ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
> access("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so",4)             = 0 (0x0)
> 
> Let me know what I should be looking for. 
> 
> I like the functionality I see from gnucash a lot but with the level
> of instability I see I'm very worried about getting dependent on it.
> I don't want to lose a whole bunch of data-entry time, or worse.
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
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