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

[Randy Burgess]

I did a Web search and found several posts about problems when gconfd-1 
doesn't run. However the workaround scripts (which all involve starting 
gconfd-1 prior to starting gnucash) don't help - I still get the same 
crash. I know gconfd-1 is starting via these scripts because it's given 
a process ID.


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.
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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a few more outdated libraries.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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