where is the mythical Gnome Application Crash Page?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 24 20:17:17 EST 2005


Hmm, this seems to happen periodically; I wish I knew what was
creating these "broken" transactions.  :(

-derek

Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at farwestbilliards.com> writes:

> okay that's freaky. This thing puts out tons of info in the terminal. like:
>
> Warning: xaccTransScrubCurrency: no common transaction currency found
> Warning: xaccTransFindOldCommonCurr...(): unable to find a common currency, and
> that is strange.
>
> Boy is it ever strange. anyway, it works...
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>     Quoting Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at farwestbilliards.com>:
>
>         there is a dialog that pops up and says something to the effect of 
>         "/usr/bin/guile-1.6 (process 30998) has crashed"
>         "see the Gnome Application Crash Page"
>         
>         I'm totally paraphrasing there. But no link.
>
>     That is the dialog to which I refered.  There should be a button labeled "submit
>     bug report" or something to that affect.  Click it.
>
> yeah, no button that I recall, and can't get it to produce the error right now...
> Will report back on this.
>
>         Happened last time when I opened a different file, asked to save 
>         current, click yes, seemed to mostly save, and then crashed. I was 
>         distracted, so....
>         
>         more on this later.
>
>     Yea, I've run into this one, too.  There are a number of memory corruption bugs
>     in 1.8, in particular when you try to close and open files.  I've found a few
>     cases where I can reproduce the problems, but I can only reproduce them with my
>     own data file, not with an empty data file..  So there's something particularly
>     weird going on.
>
> seems to happen sometimes when messing with vendors and trying to access a newly
> entered vendor from the "Find Vendor" screen.
>
>     -derek
>

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