Scheduled Transaction Crash

[David Reiser]

r16766 may fix the problem. I haven't finished my testing yet, but it  
looks promising. I expect that it will fix my two SX crashes. You will  
have to build from source to test it unless you want to wait for 2.2.3.

Dave

On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:48 PM, <gnucashmail at oneyv.org> <gnucashmail at oneyv.org 
 > wrote:

>
> No joy guys.  I tried that, but still get the same crash in  
> Scheduled Transactions.   I got a new bug-buddy trace, it it will  
> help, I will post it.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> JimR
>
>
> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>>>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>>> -derek
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user
> -----
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.

--
David Reiser
dbreiser at earthlink.net