GnuCash 2.6.4 released

[Geert Janssens]

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On Monday 29 September 2014 12:44:18 David Gillam wrote:
> Results on OSX 10.9.5:
> 
> 2.6.3 = GOOD
> 2.6.4-1 = CRASH
> 2.6.4-2 = REALLY slow startup on first round, but eventually opened
> and appeared ok, but after a clean stop it now refuses to start up
> again--get opening logo screen, then about 20 seconds later, it just
> aborts.
> 
The REALLY slow start is due to a new feature in guile 2. It precompiles 
the scheme code the first time it runs. This takes a lot of time.

It does not explain why it fails to load completely the second time 
though.

Geert

> Reverting back to 2.6.3 works.
> 
> On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Geert Janssens 
<geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> > David,
> > 
> > Have you tried the 2.6.4-2 dmg image John has uploaded about an hour
> > ago ?
> > 
> > Geert
> > 
> > On Monday 29 September 2014 12:15:15 David Gillam wrote:
> >> Yes.  2.6.4 crashes reliably on my OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) system.
> >> 2.6.3 works properly.
> >> On Sep 29, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Michael Hendry
> > 
> > <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 28 Sep 2014, at 22:44, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> >>>> The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.6.4, the
> >>>> fourth maintenance release in the 2.6-stable series.>
> >>> 
> >>> SNIP
> >>> 
> >>>> Mac OSX binary
> >>>> 
> >>>> The Gnucash 2.6.4 MacOS X Intel and PPC packages can be
> >>>> downloaded
> >>>> from Sourceforge as well.>
> >>> 
> >>> SNIP
> >>> 
> >>> I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-2.6.4-2.dmg, opened it, and copied
> >>> Gnucash.app into the Applications folder, as usual.
> >>> 
> >>> When I first ran the new version, it took a long time (several
> >>> minutes) to load, coming up with the registers I’d been working on
> >>> last time I used the program.
> >>> 
> >>> I shut it down, and tried running it again - thinking that there
> >>> must be some one-off work being done to cope with the upgrade.
> >>> This
> >>> time the program said it was “Loading…” for five or six seconds,
> >>> and then shut down.
> >>> 
> >>> I’ve tried again a few times, but with the same result.
> >>> 
> >>> Advice, please…
> >>> 
> >>> Michael
> >>> 
> >>> 
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