Debian Gnucash 2.2.6 backtrace

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Berni Elbourn <berni at elbournb.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Gnucash is bombing out on me.
>
> To be fair my system is mostly from stable, with
> the odd thing from testing for multimedia and X support. I suspect
> there is a library incompatibility. Any ideas which one?
>
> I created a new account. The crash occurs when trying to open a view on
> a book....e.g. clicking on Assets, Current Assets, cash in wallet
>
> [Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 0x7f24dbd73790 (LWP 18603)]
> 0x00007f24db123c3e in gnucash_sheet_styles_set_dimensions ()
>    from /usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-register-gnome.so
> (gdb)
> (gdb)
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007f24db123c3e in gnucash_sheet_styles_set_dimensions ()
>    from /usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-register-gnome.so
> #1  0x00007f24db124738 in gnc_table_init_gui ()
>    from /usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-register-gnome.so
[snip]

Most likely you have a saved value of -1 or something else in gconf.
Unclear how that happened, but clearly GnuCash should perform some
testing for widely weird values and have "reasonable defaults" for when
the value is grossly wrong.

> gnucash --version
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
> configure time.
>
> GnuCash 2.2.6
> Built 2008-08-28 from r17427
>
> Also I have tried Gnucash in testing...that is 2.2.9 and it works
> fine. So I could just upgrade.

Yes, you should.

> If I do upgrade do all users have to be on the same version to open
> "shared" accounts? e.g. Could I use 2.2.9, while my mamager uses 2.2.6
> on the same account we have saved on the server?

Using a mix of 2.2.x versions should be fine.  You should update.

> Ta
>
> Berni

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-derek

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