Fwd: reports - all blank suddenly

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That's what I get when after opening GC, trying to make an "account report"
(which again was just a blank page)

>>  * 08:47:15  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to
execute child process (No such file or directory)

maybe that's just it?  "could not spawn per?"

an older trace file (not sure whether I tried to use reports in that
session though) looks like this

* 10:30:34  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
child process (No such file or directory)
* 10:32:46  WARN <gnc.engine> Got a NULL guid_list but the QofGuidMatch is
not MATCH_NULL (but instead 2). In other words, the list of GUID matches is
empty but it must contain something non-empty.
* 10:34:33  WARN <gnc.engine> Got a NULL guid_list but the QofGuidMatch is
not MATCH_NULL (but instead 2). In other words, the list of GUID matches is
empty but it must contain something non-empty.
* 10:48:13  WARN <gnc.engine> Got a NULL guid_list but the QofGuidMatch is
not MATCH_NULL (but instead 2). In other words, the list of GUID matches is
empty but it must contain something non-empty.
* 10:53:39  WARN <gnc.engine> Got a NULL guid_list but the QofGuidMatch is
not MATCH_NULL (but instead 2). In other words, the list of GUID matches is
empty but it must contain something non-empty.
* 11:11:23  CRIT <Gdk> inner_clipboard_window_procedure: assertion
'success' failed
* 11:22:58  CRIT <Gdk> inner_clipboard_window_procedure: assertion
'success' failed
* 11:32:06  CRIT <Gdk> inner_clipboard_window_procedure: assertion
'success' failed
* 11:32:22  CRIT <Gdk> inner_clipboard_window_procedure: assertion
'success' failed
* 12:25:49  CRIT <Gdk> inner_clipboard_window_procedure: assertion
'success' failed

I am not really sure when this problem actually came up but I don;t think
there is any trace files left from the times where it still worked. So I
have nothing to compare it to