gnucash aborts immediately under Oneiric Kubuntu

[John Ralls]

On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Paul Abrahams wrote:

> On Monday, October 24, 2011 11:45:24 AM Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Paul Abrahams (abrahams at acm.org) said:
>>> I'm running Oneiric Kubuntu with gnucash version 1:2.4.7-1.  Here's what
>>> I get when I start it from a command shell:
>>> 
>>> pwa at pwa-K60IJ:~$ gnucash
>>> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
>>> configure time.
>>> 
>>> Segmentation fault
>>> 
>>> I also see the opening screen flash briefly.
>>> 
>>> Something is very wrong, and I don't know what to do about it.
>> 
>> It may be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661383, but that's only
>> a guess.
>> 
>> Bill
> 
> I really don't feel capable of modifying the code and then installing the 
> revised version, especially when it requires understanding the code base.  
> This really seems like a task for someone on the development team.
> 
> Is there any fix that doesn't require fiddling with the code?

Try starting with --nofile, to prevent loading your last-opened file, then File>Open the last backup (foo.timestamp.gnucash) -- that's on the theory that there's something wrong with your last save.

If that doesn't work, file a bug [1] and attach the tracefile [2]. If you can manage a stack trace [3], it would be great if you can paste that in to the bug report.

Until we can figure out an fix the bug, you should probably revert to whatever version was working for you before.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
[2] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
[3] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace