Tax report error

[Dave Walton]

Hi Tommy,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I've been trying to avoid building it to get the latest, but getdeb
looks interesting.

Your Guile suggestion doesn't seem relevant, as it appears to be related
to upgrading, but this is a clean install.

However, there are a couple updates to the problem to report.

In the past, my attempts to open the tax report crashed GnuCash.
However, when I reproduced it in order to get the output to post here,
it didn't crash.  It just sat there displaying the busy cursor.  After I
posted, I realized that it was in fact responding, in spite of the
cursor.  So I took the opportunity to see if the report options would
have any effect.

When I changed some settings and clicked Apply, GnuCash crashed.  So
there is definitely still a crash bug here.  But when I restarted it and
tried again, I still got just the spinning cursor, not a crash.  That
allowed me to keep trying, until after repeated crash/restarts, I
learned that:

Checking "Do not print transaction detail" in the tax report options
seems to fix the problem.

I have no idea what that checkbox actually does, or whether I would want
it on or off in the report, but I can say this with certainty:
Unchecked, the tax report fails and GnuCash often crashes.  Checked, the
tax report seems to work fine and no crash.

Dave


On 12/01/2014 10:09 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Dave Walton <dw-gnucash at digger.net
> <mailto:dw-gnucash at digger.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     I've been running GnuCash for years and recently upgraded my computer to
>     Kubuntu 14.04, replacing my old 2.2.6 install with a fresh new 2.6.1
>     install.  Since then, I have been unable to run the tax report. When I
>     select it from the Reports menu, GnuCash displays:
> 
>     Report error
>     An error occurred while running the report.
> 
>     And leaves the mouse cursor as the busy cursor.
>     In the console, it dumps the output you see below, which I'm afraid is
>     meaningless to me.
> 
>     Can someone help me figure what is going on and fix it?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Dave
> 
> 
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 19 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 190cb20>]
>        ?: 18 [gnc-main-window-open-report 5 #<swig-pointer GncMainWindow *
>     1272d30>]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>      157: 17 [catch #t #<catch-closure 2e87560> #<catch-closure 2e87540> #f]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 16 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2e87560>]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>      171: 15 [with-throw-handler #t #<catch-closure 2e87400> #<catch-closure
>     2e873e0>]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 14 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2e87400>]
>        ?: 13 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-run 5)" ...]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>     2320: 12 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 2626540 at
>     ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>]
>     In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>       44: 11 [read-and-eval #<input: string 2f134e0> #:lang ...]
>       37: 10 [lp (gnc:report-run 5)]
>     In report.scm:
>      766: 9 [gnc:report-run 5]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>      157: 8 [catch ignore #<procedure 2626300 at gnucash/main.scm:112:4
>     ()> ...]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 7 [lazy-catch #t #<procedure 2626120 at gnucash/main.scm:114:18
>     ()> ...]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>      171: 6 [with-throw-handler #t #<catch-closure 2e9df20> #<catch-closure
>     2e9df00>]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 5 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2e9df20>]
>     In report.scm:
>      770: 4 [#<procedure 2626330 at report.scm:767:5 ()>]
>      749: 3 [gnc:report-render-html # #t]
>     In html-document.scm:
>      196: 2 [gnc:html-document-render # #t]
>     In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>      102: 1 [#<procedure 24931c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>
>     vm-error ...]
>     In unknown file:
>        ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2e9df00> vm-error ...]
> 
>     _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> I don't use the tax report so I cannot verify that problem, but there
> are enough kinks in 2.6.1 you might want to consider downloading GnuCash
> 2.6.4 and building it yourself, or using the appropriate binaries for
> your system from GetDeb.net.
> 
> THAT SAID, I see some vaguely familiar looking errors. For folks who
> cannot open GnuCash at all, there's a Guile bug that causes crashes, and
> maybe in your system it only bit that one report. You MIGHT try the
> workaround for it https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764821
> 
> Try closing GnuCash, delete the directory 
>     ~/.cache/guile/ccache/ 
> and reopen GnuCash. Guile will rebuild the items in the cache directory.
> You only need to do this once after an upgrade. 
> 
> Please report back to the list (not just me) if that fixes the problem
> with the report. It may not, but it's far easier than the other options!
> 
>  
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