Scheduled transaction crash - shows wrong version?

[Doug Laidlaw]

Mandriva doesn't install under /etc/bin, but under /usr/bin.   Libraries are 
under  /usr/lib/gnucash/  and so on.

I wouuld endorse your recommendation, Derek.  The OP has already done the 
equivalent of "rpm -e" the 2.05 installation, but it still needs the source 
version cleaned out.   I would then search for any remaining gnucash 
directories or files and delete them before reinstalling the source version.

With two "gnucash" executables, the RPM one in /usr/bin and the source one 
in /usr/local/bin, results are unpredictable.  Both are in the user's path.   
At one time I had two versions installed, and I could choose my version by 
selecting the appropriate executable,  but I would not recommend it.  When I 
install from source, I almost always run ./configure with the "--prefix=/usr" 
flag to put everything where Mandriva expects it to be.  
(Type "./configure --help" to see other options.)  That should overwrite any 
remnants of the old installation as well.

As a last test, perhaps Jim could type "/usr/local/bin/gnucash" and see what 
happens...  There can be a strange effect when one executable has been 
in /usr/bin and a more recent one in /usr/local/bin, that the simple 
command "gnucash" goes looking for the old one.

HTH,

Doug.

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:32:40 pm Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting JimR <gnucashmail at oneyv.org>:
> > Today, I tried to run my first Scheduled Transaction Since Last Run.  It
> > crashed, and suggested that I install bug-buddy to report the results.
> > I did, and created a fake scheduled transaction to recreate the error.
> > When I get the "Since Last Run ..." dialog up, and click the OK button,
> > it crashes.  It sent a bug-buddy report to bugzilla as #506011.
> > However, I am very confused that it reported my gnucash version as 2.0.5
> > in bugzilla.  I have a hunch that this is a strong part of the reason
> > for the crash.
>
> Interesting backtrace...
>
> > When I do Help About under gnucash, it correctly shows version 2.2.2.
> > The new version 2.2.2 is installed under /usr/local/bin .  The old
> > version  (which came with my Mandriva base install) version 2.0.5 is
> > under /etc/bin, but I renamed the files gnucash, gnucash-bin,
> > gnucash-env and gnucash-valgrind all to .old.  There are no other
> > gnucash files in /usr/bin.
>
> Your problem is that you didn't "rpm -e gnucash" to completely
> remove the 2.0.5 sources.  What's going on is that you've left
> all of the gnucash libraries in place in a way that they could
> interfere with your /usr/local installation.
>
> I suggest you "make uninstall" your 2.2 sources, then "make distclean",
> then reconfigure with --prefix=/opt/gnucash and THEN reinstall gnucash
> into there.
>
> > Help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > PS - Don't know if it is pertinent or not, but when I inspect the .log
> > files after the crash, I notice what appears to be some date strings of
> > 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000 -0500 (I am in U.S. EST), which I suspect is
> > the *nix "beginning of time" date.
>
> It is.  I think that the SX system doesn't set the txn entered date
> properly.
>
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>
> -derek