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

[Randy Burgess]

>>Other than that, SuSE installs gconfd-1 by default in /opt/gnome/bin -
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You are so right. Checking processes, I find that starting gconfd-1 in a 
shell doesn't start gconfd-1, but starts gconfd-2. This seems pretty 
crazy - at any rate, it defeats the wrapper script I was trying to use 
to start gconfd-1 before starting GnuCash.

> 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.

I'm pretty raw when it comes to Linux, but will give this a shot. First 
I'll Google again to see if there are any known instances of conflicts 
between gconfd-1 and gconfd-2. There was at least one report of a 
conflict, but supposedly gconfd-1 got patched to fix this.



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>>>Have you read the FAQ?  In particular, are you sure that you're running
>>>gconfd-1?  Note that gconfd-2 is NOT sufficient.
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>>>-derek
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>>>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.
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>>>>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:
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>>>>   Fatal server error: Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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a few more outdated libraries.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 ...
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>>>>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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