2.6.6 Crashes on Open on OS X 10.9.5

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sat Jun 6 20:33:39 EDT 2015


> On Jun 6, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Brian Buchalter <bal711 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> This worked perfectly. Thank you for the quick and helpful response.
> 
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:41 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> It looks like you’ve found a memory bug in Cairo, but knowing that doesn’t do you much good. The problem is in displaying a report, but it’s not possible to tell which one that might be. Since it’s crashing on open you must have closed GnuCash the last time with that report displayed.
> 
> So to get running again you need to stop that report from opening on when you open the file: In ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/books/ you’ll find a file named the same as your data file + a .gcm suffix. That contains the display state
> of GnuCash for your data file: Window sizes, which registers and reports are open, and so on. Rename it, then restart GnuCash. That will stop GnuCash trying to open the misbehaving report.

Brian,

Excellent.

Do you know what report caused the crash?

Regards,
John Ralls



More information about the gnucash-user mailing list