Reports in Gnucash 1.8.8 cause segmentation fault on a SuSE 9.1 Pro installation

[Derek Atkins]

Have you read the FAQ?  In particular, are you sure that you're running
gconfd-1?  Note that gconfd-2 is NOT sufficient.

-derek

Randy Burgess <rburgess at usable-thought.com> writes:

> I'm running a brand-new installation of SuSE 9.1 professional on an
> eMachines T3092; kernel is 2.6.5-7.108-default. I've installed GnuCash
> 1.8.8-49 from the SuSE-supplied RPM. I'm using the KDE 3.2 desktop.
>
> GnuCash runs OK except when I try to access anything on the Reports
> menu - in which case it crashes and brings down X with it. Looking in
> /var/log/warn, I find only this:
>
>     Fatal server error: Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
>
> I've checked the hardware using the test script from
> www.bitwizard.nl/sig11, and everything checks out OK, so I don't think
> it's a hardware problem.
>
> I've searched SuSE support site plus done a Google and have come up
> with nothing. My fallback solution is to unsintall the SuSE RPM and go
> with an older version of 1.8.8 I assembled--but although that older
> version ran fine on SuSE 8.2 Pro, it looks like I'll now need to grab
> a few more outdated libraries. Which of course may or may not cause
> system conflicts ...
>
> Anybody have any other suggestions? Any other logs I can look at? This
> seems like a hellishly difficult app to troubleshoot given its many
> dependencies.
>
>
>
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