"Unspecified fatal error" on Windows

[Dave Walton]

I just managed to stumble across the cause of this ongoing crash that
prevented me from running GnuCash (though not the original cause of the
problem).

When I looked for the log files below, I had noticed that c:\Documents
and Settings\$user\Local Settings\Temp contained over 1GB of junk, and
just now went in there to see if I could clean it up any.  (Why on earth
don't the programs that write there clean up after themselves??)  While
going through there, I found a file (c:\Documents and
Settings\$user\Local Settings\Temp\gconfd-$user\lock\ior) which had a
timestamp matching the FIRST time GnuCash failed to start.  That is, it
had the same timestamp as the log file below which contains a reference
to "line 29".

I moved that 'ior' file away, and GnuCash now starts without a problem.
 It appears that the "line 29" error which started this caused a
corrupted 'ior' file to be created, and all the subsequent "line 76"
errors are a result of GnuCash's inability to handle that situation
gracefully, or even communicate clearly what the problem was.

So, hopefully this information about my experience will be of help to
other users, and will help the developers prevent the problem entirely
in the future.

Dave


Dave Walton wrote:
> Andreas Köhler wrote:
>> On Do, 2007-03-08 at 01:29 -0800, Dave Walton wrote:
>>> If I log into another account on this computer, GnuCash still runs.  So
>>> the application itself is fine.  But I am completely unable to run it in
>>> my main account.  Anyone got any idea what the problem is?  And what
>>> caused it?
>> hm.  You will have to find the corresponding gnucash.trace, it should be
>> in c:\Documents and Settings\$user\Local Settings\Temp, at least I think
>> so.  Please check these files for errors or mail the newest completely
>> to the list.
> 
> Ah, look...  I've got a few dozen of those files.  I'll follow up on the
> report crashes later (when I can actually get that far).  For now,
> here's the contents of the trace file from when I try to start GnuCash:
> 
> *  OTHER <> file corba-object.c: line 76 (ORBit_register_objref):
> assertion failed: (obj->object_key != NULL)
> 
> Not much there, and meaningless to me.  Hope it's helpful!
> 
> Looking through the other files, I've got about 18 identical to that
> one, from all the times I tried to get it running.  But the series
> starts with this one, which seems to have been created the first time it
> failed to start:
> 
> *  OTHER <> file corba-object.c: line 29 (g_CORBA_Object_hash):
> assertion failed: (obj->object_key != NULL)
> 
> About an hour before that one, I found the following, which may (or may
> not) be from the last successful run:
> (no idea what c:/entwicklung is or where that name came from.  no such
> directory exists or has ever existed on my computer.)
> 
> *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2224 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> *   WARN <gnc.engine> failed to load gnc-backend-postgres from
> C:\Program Files\gnucash\lib\gnucash
> *   WARN <qof.session> [qof_session_load_backend()]  failed to load
> gncqof-backend-qsf from c:/entwicklung/usr/inst/lib/gnucash
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid
> window handle.
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid
> window handle.
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   CRIT <gnc.account> [xaccAccountTypesCompatibleWith()] bad account
> type: -1
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid
> window handle.
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   WARN <gnc.io> [try_gz_open()] Compression not implemented on
> Windows. Opening uncompressed file.
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid
> window handle.
> *   WARN <gnc.io> [try_gz_open()] Compression not implemented on
> Windows. Opening uncompressed file.
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed: Invalid
> window handle.
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   CRIT <gnc.ledger> [gnc_split_register_get_trans_split()] bad row
> *   CRIT <gnc.register.gnome> gnucash_sheet_cursor_set_from_table:
> assertion `gnucash_sheet_cell_valid (sheet, v_loc)' failed
> *   WARN <gnc.io> [try_gz_open()] Compression not implemented on
> Windows. Opening uncompressed file.
> *   WARN <gnc.io> [try_gz_open()] Compression not implemented on
> Windows. Opening uncompressed file.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
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