2.6.3 from GetDeb crashing on Ubuntu 14.04

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue May 27 09:47:46 EDT 2014


On May 27, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Colin Law wrote:

> On 27 May 2014 04:05, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> On May 26, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Jamestk wrote:
>> 
>>> Reply as detailed above (link doesn't work though)
>>> 
>>> /Hi,
>>> 
>>> there is a known problem that GNUCash crashes on close:
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728717
>>> 
>>> It seems not to be a problem in GNUCash itself but in a library it uses.
>>> It also crashes on Debian so it is also not the problem of Ubuntu or the
>>> GetDeb repository.
>> 
>> No, the problem *is* in GnuCash, and I've fixed it, but RedHat seems to have taken bugzilla down just as I was about to update the bug. See the email "Python Module and libdbi-0.9.0" the dev list for more details.
> 
> If that is the reason that 2.6.3 from getdeb crashes on close on
> Ubuntu 14.04, then is there a known reason why 2.6.3 built from source
> in the same environment does not crash?  Libdbi is at 0.9.0-1.

Most likely that you didn't enable python in configure, but to be sure I'd need to test on your computer.

> 
> In fact the bug report does not mention crashing on close at all so is
> this even related?

Umm, the *title* is "Ubuntu 14.04 - GNUcash crashes on close". How is that not related?

Regards,
John Ralls




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