2.6.6 Crashes on Open on OS X 10.9.5

[Brian Buchalter]

I believe it was an Income/Expense Report, but not sure which one. Would it be helpful to try and reproduce?


> On Jun 6, 2015, at 8:33 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Jun 6, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Brian Buchalter <bal711 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> John,
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>> This worked perfectly. Thank you for the quick and helpful response.
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>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:41 AM, John Ralls <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.
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>>> 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.
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> Brian,
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> Excellent.
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> Do you know what report caused the crash?
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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