Gnucash 2.2.9 crash

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 18 maart 2011, Étienne Rivest wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Recently, I setup the display to have the tabs on the left side instead
> of top of main window.
> 
> If I open many accounts, 22 tabs, the last one, at the bottom, shows
> badly with an horizontal line in the middle.  Then, if I open a 23rd
> tab, the program crashes instantly.
> 
> I get a system message (window title is Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime
> library) saying "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate
> in an unusual way.  Please, contact the application's support team for
> more information."
> 
> Here a cut/paste of the trace file :
> *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2645 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> *   WARN <gnc.app-util> Could not spawn perl: L'exécution du processus
> fils a échoué (No such file or directory)
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkpixmap-win32.c:302: CreateDIBSection failed: Opération
> réussie.
> *   WARN <Gdk> gdkpixmap-win32.c:114: DeleteObject failed: Opération
> réussie.
> -----
> Note, I use a French translation.
> In the third line, I would freely translate "L'exécution du processus
> fils a échoué" by "Child process execution failed".
> In the last two lines, you can understand "Opération réussie" as meaning
> "Operation succeeded".
> 
> I use GC 2.2.9 on a Windows Vista family French OS laptop computer with
> a screen resolution of 1280x800 so the tab list doesn't fill the
> complete height of the screen.
> 
> Any comment ?
> 
I'm afraid this is a known bug [1], for which no solution is found yet. The 
problem is not in the GnuCash code, but in a support library it uses. Refer to 
the bug report for more details.

For now the only advice I can give is to either avoid vertically stacked tabs, 
or never open more than fit the window (with a little bit of margin).

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614636