Gnucash versions 2.2.9 and 2.4.10 broken in Debian Squeeze

[Ken Heard]

On 2013-01-09 04:40, John Ralls wrote:

> I sympathize with your need to get your Gnucash installation fixed, but splattering bug reports and emails all over the place isn't going to get you anywhere. From your description, it's evident that the problem doesn't lie in Gnucash, which is why I closed your bug report.

What would you have me do otherwise?  I do not know enough to determine
whether the bug is a gnucash bug or a debian bug.  The only way I could
think of the determine the source of the bug is to do what I did, file a
bug report to both gnucash and debian and post to the two user lists.

> However, we're willing to help  troubleshoot your problem. The first thing we need is a stack trace. Instructions to obtain one are at [1]. We'll get the best results if you install the -dbg packages for glib and gnucash first.

As for the stack trace, I followed the instructions on the webpage you
gave me under the heading: "Starting GnuCash under gdb".  Running
"gnucash-env gdb gnucash-bin" as instructed produced the following result:

GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnucash-bin...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/gnucash-bin...done.
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run --nofile
Starting program: /usr/bin/gnucash-bin --nofile
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
configure time.


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb75e8e05 in gnc_module_get_info () at gnc-module.c:322
322     gnc-module.c: No such file or directory.
        in gnc-module.c
(gdb) bt full
#0  0xb75e8e05 in gnc_module_get_info () at gnc-module.c:322
        pathfunc = 0xb75e4c10
        iface = 0xb75e5204
        descripfunc = 0xb75e4be0
        revision = 0xb75e5208
        gmodule = <value optimized out>
        modsysver = 0x0
        initfunc = 0xb75e4bc0
        age = 0xb75e520c
        f_descrip = 0xb75e4be0
<libgncmod_calculation_gnc_module_description>
#1  gnc_module_system_refresh () at gnc-module.c:218
        d = 0x805ff90
        dent = <value optimized out>
        fullpath = 0x806cc40
"/usr/lib/gnucash/gnucash/libgncmod-backend-file.so"
        search_dirs = 0x8051390
        current = <value optimized out>
#2  0xb75e90f3 in gnc_module_system_init () at gnc-module.c:170
No locals.
#3  0x0804a906 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff254) at gnucash-bin.c:597
No locals.
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 6745] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) n
Not confirmed.
(gdb) ^CQuit
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

        Inferior 1 [process 6745] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
ken at R61:/home/ken$

I hope the foregoing makes sense to me; it does not to me.  I suppose I
should add it to my bug report to debian.

Thanks, and regards, Ken Heard