Transaction Report Repeatedly Crashes GNUCash 2.6.1

Fri Mar 21 17:29:48 EDT 2014

Mark,

I'm sorry you interpreted my reply as full of hubris. I am neither a programmer nor a user of Linux, but merely another user of GnuCash. 

If you read my message, I made no assertion about your operating system. I merely suggested that you might upgrade to the latest stable release to see whether that fixed your problem. I was under the impression that there are repositories that offer 2.6.2 from which you could update, but apparently I was mistaken.

Good luck on fixing the problem. I hope someone else will be able to help you with it.

David

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 From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Transaction Report Repeatedly Crashes GNUCash 2.6.1

David,

I find it the hight of hubris to recommend changing one's operating system in order to migrate to a point release that is not even 3 months old in an application. If you know of a bug that is fixed in 2.6.2 that addresses the errors I have reported, then I will consider upgrading or wait for the Debian maintainer to migrate 2.6.2 to testing. However, by your own admission, you have no idea what is causing the problem, so stridently saying I have no other choice to get help unless I mangle my operating system and upgrade to 2.6.2 is not very helpful or friendly. If, as you say, I still have the problem after upgrading, will you recommend I change my operating system to Windows 8? Maybe try Fedora and hope for the best?

Let me rephrase my request for help. Is there someone on the list who understands the debugging information I provided for the error I am experiencing, and would he or she be able to help me diagnose what is going on so I can fix the problem?

Thanks,

Mark

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:51 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Mark,
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>GnuCash 2.6.2 is more stable than 2.6.1, and fixes a number of issues, and perhaps yours. The fact that Debian is not up-to-date is beside the point. Since you're having troubles with 2.6.1, you'd well advised to seek out 2.6.2 through whatever channels you can. Then, if the problem persists, the developers can help track down the source.
>
>
>David
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>________________________________
> From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>To: Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> 
>Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:41 AM
>Subject: Re: Transaction Report Repeatedly Crashes GNUCash 2.6.1
> 
>
>Jeff,
>
>I usually just run Debian testing and rely on apt to update packages as
>needed. 2.6.2 is still in unstable, so I am reluctant to run a mixed
>testing/unstable system. Is there another way to find out what is missing
>or going wrong with my current installation?
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jeff Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Can you try it with gnucash 2.6.2 and see if you get the same crash?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Mark Phillips <
>> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using GC for several years and have not had any issues. I am
>>> running GC 2.6.1 on Linux version 3.1.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.1.8-2). However,
>>> recently when I try to run a transaction report, GC crashes with a brief
>>> message that says there was an error running the report (it flashes on the
>>> screen, the the program goes away). I looked in the gnucash.trace file and
>>> found -
>>>
>>> root at orca:/tmp# cat gnucash.trace
>>> * 08:33:18 WARN <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi()] No DBD
>>> drivers found
>>> * 08:33:26 WARN <gnc.python> Unable to initialize Python module (unable to
>>> open /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py)
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable:
 assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:33:58 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL'
 failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils>
 gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:35:18 CRIT <gnc.app-utils> gnc_option_set_selectable: assertion
>>> 'option->odb->set_selectable != NULL' failed
>>> * 08:36:08 WARN <gnc.report.core> Failure running report: ERROR: In
>>> procedure apply-smob/1:
>>> ERROR: Wrong number of arguments to #<procedure display-error (_ _ _ _ _
>>> _)>
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 19 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3472920>]
>>> ?: 18 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-run 1)" ...]
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 2320: 17 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 4c2a150 at
>>> ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>]
>>> In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>>> 44: 16 [read-and-eval #<input: string 5198680> #:lang ...]
>>> 37: 15 [lp (gnc:report-run 1)]
>>> In report.scm:
>>> 766: 14 [gnc:report-run 1]
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 157: 13 [catch ignore #<procedure 3473d80 at gnucash/main.scm:112:4 ()>
>>> ...]
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 12 [lazy-catch #t #<procedure 3473d20 at gnucash/main.scm:114:18 ()>
>>> ...]
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 171: 11 [with-throw-handler #t #<catch-closure 34725e0> #<catch-closure
>>> 34725c0>]
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 34725e0>]
>>> In report.scm:
>>> 770: 9 [#<procedure 3473db0 at report.scm:767:5 ()>]
>>> 749: 8 [gnc:report-render-html # #t]
>>> In html-document.scm:
>>> 196: 7 [gnc:html-document-render # #t]
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 102: 6 [#<procedure 54ddb80 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>
>>> vm-error ...]
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 5 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 34725c0> vm-error ...]
>>> In gnucash/main.scm:
>>> 98: 4 [dumper vm-error vm-run "VM: Stack overflow" ()]
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 3 [display-error #<stack 5e99150> #<output: file 2> ...]
>>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> 106: 2
 [#<procedure 54ddb80 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>
>>> wrong-number-of-args ...]
>>> 102: 1 [#<procedure 54ddc00 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)>
>>> wrong-number-of-args ...]
>>> In unknown file:
>>> ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3472900> wrong-number-of-args ...]
>>> root at orca:/tmp#
>>>
>>> The file /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py does exist -
>>> root at orca:/tmp# ls -alh /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8K Feb 9 08:30 /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py
>>> root at orca:/tmp#
>>>
>>> This same report has worked for years, and not it crashes when I change
>>> the
>>> date range. Any thoughts on how to fix this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark
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