2.0.4 crash

[Donald Allen]

On 2/12/07, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 07:59 -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > I spent some time trying to get gnucash 2.0.4, guile, and g-wrap built,
> > failed,  and finally reached the conclusion that when the gentoo folks
> mark
> > packages "testing" and mask them for that reason, there probably is a
> good
> [...]
> > that also worked without incident. So, either
> >
> > a. I didn't reproduce the problem sequence perfectly this morning
> > b. The crash was due to a bug introduced since 2.0.1
> > c. The crash was due to version mis-match issues between 2.0.4 and the
>
> Or, maybe:
> d. The bug is coincidental to all this.
>
> IIRC, there is an unexplained, low-frequency crash that does exhibit
> when tabbing off of a description.  As it's intermittent and hard to
> reproduce, it's hard to debug. :/


Yes, that's certainly possible, though I had no trouble reproducing it on
Saturday.

W.r.t. Gentoo, yes ... unstable can be unstable.  Running ~x86 (or
> whatever) system-wide is a bad idea, though (limited) use
> of /etc/portage/package.keyword can be useful.  After participating in
> some of the package-untanglement, I can suggest that gnucash-2.0.4-r1,
> g-wrap-1.9.6-r1, slib-3.1.1 and guile-1.6.7 are a working combination;
> as well, it seems, slib-3.1.1-r1 and guile-1.8.1-r1 play nicely
> together.  Though, most of these versions are still masked.  In any
> case, a stable 2.0.4 should hit the tree soon enough.


With g-wrap-1.9.6-r1 in place,  I tried to emerge gnucash 2.0.4-r1 and got

   cannot find g-wrap-wct.h where g-wrap claims it should be.
   are you on Debian or Ubuntu and still using g-wrap 1.9.6-2?
   See:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330539

That was when I gave up and reverted to 2.0.1. It's certainly possible this
was pilot error, but I think I'll wait for the stable 2.0.4 (thanks for
letting me know that should happen soon), since 2.0.1 looks like it's
working fine.

/Don


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