GNUCash 2.4.13 crash on startup

[John Ralls]

On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Dave Turner <dave.c.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 6 Oct 2013 21:19, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Dave Turner <dct25-gnucash at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ohhhh, I think I've got something. Just ran it in Windbg and got the
> > > attached log and stack trace. In particular:
> > >
> > > ModLoad: 06190000 061c3000   C:\Program Files
> > > (x86)\gnucash\bin\libgnc-core-utils-0.dll
> > > ModLoad: 07630000 076fc000   C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\libguile.dll
> > > ModLoad: 63f80000 63f8c000   C:\Program Files
> > > (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3-3.dll
> > > ModLoad: 6bf80000 6c032000   C:\Program Files
> > > (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\libguile-17.dll
> > > ModLoad: 61cc0000 61cd1000   C:\Program Files
> > > (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\libintl-8.dll
> > > ModLoad: 63080000 63092000   C:\Program Files
> > > (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\libregex-2.dll
> > >
> > >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > It's picking up some bits of libguile from Lilypond! And it's a
> > > different version of libguile so of course that's not going to work
> > > right.
> > >
> > > Hmmm. It's possible I changed my $PATH to include Lilypond and it's
> > > using that to find those libs. I have uninstalled Lilypond and all is
> > > well; I will try and reinstall it and see if I can get them not to
> > > interfere.
> >
> > Oh, Lilypond. This is a well-known problem, and it's Lilypond's installer's fault.
> > It puts Lilypond's path in the global path. I think you can fix that by removing Lilypond's
> > path from the global path (in control panel>system, IIRC) and adding it to the Start Menu
> > Lilypond alias.
> 
> To be fair to Lilypond, it was me who added it to $PATH - the installer isn't to blame.
> 
> All sorted now, thanks everyone.


Good to hear, but please remember to copy the list on replies.

Regards,
John Ralls