Crash When Entering Tax Data - GC 2.4.4 (Debian Squeeze Backports)

[Digger]

David T. wrote
> 
> Digger--
>  
> I am not primarily a Linux user, and I don't use Debian, but I note the
> wiki page at
>  
> wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building#Debian
>  
> as well as the blog at
>  
> blog.oldcomputerjunk.net/2012/building-gnucash-from-getdeb-sources-and-passing-configure-options-to-dpkg-buildpackage/
>  
> which describes compiling and installing. Perhaps they would get you a
> later version of Gnucash?
>  
> David
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Digger <careycher1@>
> To: gnucash-user@ 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Crash When Entering Tax Data - GC 2.4.4 (Debian Squeeze
> Backports)
> 
> 
> John Ralls-2 wrote
>> 
>> On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Digger wrote:
>> 
>>> John,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for sticking with me....
>>> 
>>> Results from the stacktrace:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> gdb) continue
>>> Continuing.
>>> 
>>> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
>>> 0x00007f9a03ad61b5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> (gdb) bt
>>> #0  0x00007f9a03ad61b5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> #1  0x00007f9a03ad8fc0 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> #2  0x00007f9a03b0c37b in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> #3  0x00007f9a03b15bd6 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> #4  0x00007f9a03b1a94c in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
>>> #5  0x00007f9a093c199b in gnc_ui_account_get_tax_info_string (
>>>    account=0x18673f0) at gnc-ui-util.c:680
>> 
>> Brilliant!
>> 
>> This turns out to have been an over-zealous but not careful enough effort
>> to squash some memory leaks and expresses itself in 2.4.4 only.
>> 
>> So if you can switch either to 2.4.3 or 2.4.5 you should be OK -- at
>> least
>> with regard to *this* problem!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks for your great detective work.  Now, I need to decide where I go
> from
> here.
> 
> *1. *I'm currently loading lots of data into gnucash to get my business
> running in it.  If I switch versions of gnucash, I'm presuming that all of
> that work will not go to waste (i.e. the data will be preserved).
> 
> *2.*  Also, since I'm running Debian stable (Squeeze), I'm sort of stuck
> with GC 2.4.4 at the moment, since it is the only version available in the
> backports repo.  I'm guessing that this is something that I need to bring
> up
> with the Debian folks....does that sound right?
> 
> Once again, thanks for all of your hard work.  This is one thing I bring
> up
> when I try to explain my jump to Linux to my friends.  Yes, the programs
> are
> not bug-free, but the help available is so much better than that available
> from the Windows community!
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Thanks, David, for the info.  I'm looking into my options at this time.

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