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

[Derek Atkins]

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

> Not sure what FAQ you're referring to. The FAQ at
> http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFrequentlyAskedQuestions
> is the only one I know about, and seems pretty useless. Is there
> another FAQ that's better?


http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCash

> Other than that, SuSE installs gconfd-1 by default in /opt/gnome/bin -
> so yes, it's there.

That doesn't mean it's _RUNNING_ ...

Another thing to try.  Start gnucash, then "gdb attach" the running
gnucash process, then start a report, then get a backtrace in gdb to
see where it's segfaulting.

-derek

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>>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:
>>
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>>>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a few more outdated libraries.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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