gnucash-user Digest, Vol 147, Issue 17

[Richard Dawson]

On 06/12/2015 01:36 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Thursday 11 June 2015 17:57:08 Richard Dawson wrote:
>> On 06/11/2015 07:30 AM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>>> I believe you said you are running Linux Mint (version not
>>> specified). If I recall, MOST of the versions of Mint are
>>> derivatives of Ubuntu LTS versions, so that's why you're seeing the
>>> version of GnuCash that was current in Debian when Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>>> was frozen in early 2014.
>>>
>>> The simplest way to get a more recent version of GnuCash is to go to
>>> http://getdeb.net and follow the instructions for adding its
>>> repository to your system.
>>>
>>> At GetDeb, BE CERTAIN to choose the right "upstream" version of
>>> Ubuntu that your version of Mint is based on, or you may cause some
>>> strange compatibility issues when you try to install the packages.
>>> I am looking at the release notes for Mint 17.1 KDE, which says
>>> "Linux Mint 17.1 is based on Ubuntu 14.04."
>>> http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_rebecca_kde.php
>>>
>>> P.S.: if GetDeb works, and you appreciate the ease of installing the
>>> latest GnuCash, consider a modest donation to GetDeb to pay for
>>> their server expenses.
>> A number of developments.  Just to refresh the record,
>>
>> I am using GnuCash 2.6.1, built from rev 76cba80+ on 2014-02-19 I am
>> using Linux Mint KDE I am using the default storage - I think that it
>> is uncompressed XML, since I can open the
>> file with a text editor and what I see is quite readable.
>>
> Ok. That gives a good summary of your setup, thanks.
>
>> As suggested, I tried getdeb.net.  The version was labled, as I
>> recall, 2.6.6-1, leading me to believe that it would be the latest
>> version (2.6.6).  I purged the old version as directed, and installed
>> from getdeb.  I ended up with 2.6.1, and still had the same problem.
>>
> 2.6.6 is currently indeed the most recent version and the one you'd want 
> to install.
>
> If you ended up with 2.6.1 again that means either your getdep 
> configuration was wrong (perhaps the wrong version of Ubuntu LTS?) or 
> the installation failed for some reason.
>
> Colin already suggested to try again from the command line in order to 
> get a more detail log of the installation attempt.
>
>> Next, swallowing my pride, I installed 2.6.6 on a Windows 7 machine
>> using the installer found at gnuchash.org.  Using a copy of the
>> gnucash data file, I ran the report.  It ran without a problem!
>>
> The Windows installer is working with older code to generate the 
> reports. That older code didn't have the bug you are experiencing.
>
>> On two linux machines, both Mint 17.1 KDE, I am unable to run the
>> report with more than a number of records, unfortunately a
>> considerably small number than the number of records in the file.  
>> What happens is that gnucash runs just long enough after starting the
>> report for a message to appear in the report form saying that there
>> was an error, then the program completely crashes, disappearing from
>> the screen entirely.  The following is what I found in
>> /temp/gnucash.trace immediately after the last crash:
>>
>> * 17:22:48  WARN <gnc.backend.dbi> [gnc_module_init_backend_dbi()] No
>> DBD drivers found * 17:22:54  WARN <gnc.python> Unable to initialize
>> Python module (unable to open /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py) *
>> 17:25:33  CRIT <GLib> Source ID 1451 was not found when attempting to
>> remove it * 17:25:39  WARN <gnc.report.core> Failure running report:
>> ERROR: In procedure apply-smob/1: ERROR: Wrong number of arguments to
>> #<procedure display-error (_ _ _ _ _ _)> In unknown file:
>>    ?: 19 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3184240>]
>>    ?: 18 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-run 0)" ...]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>> 2320: 17 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 2ca90c0 at
>> ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>] In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>>   44: 16 [read-and-eval #<input: string 2cf9b60> #:lang ...]
>>   37: 15 [lp (gnc:report-run 0)]
>> In report.scm:
>>  766: 14 [gnc:report-run 0]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>  157: 13 [catch ignore #<procedure 2cafea0 at gnucash/main.scm:112:4
>> ()> ...] In unknown file:
>>    ?: 12 [lazy-catch #t #<procedure 2cafe40 at gnucash/main.scm:114:18
>> ()> ...] In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>  171: 11 [with-throw-handler #t #<catch-closure 31a6e80>
>> #<catch-closure 31a6e60>] In unknown file:
>>    ?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 31a6e80>]
>> In report.scm:
>>  770: 9 [#<procedure 2cafed0 at report.scm:767:5 ()>]
>>  749: 8 [gnc:report-render-html # #t]
>> In html-document.scm:
>>  196: 7 [gnc:html-document-render # #t]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>  102: 6 [#<procedure 3141440 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k .
>> args)> vm-error ...] In unknown file:
>>    ?: 5 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 31a6e60> vm-error ...]
>> In gnucash/main.scm:
>>   98: 4 [dumper vm-error vm-run "VM: Stack overflow" ()]
>> In unknown file:
>>    ?: 3 [display-error #<stack 9c66cf0> #<output: file 2> ...]
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>  106: 2 [#<procedure 3141440 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k .
>> args)> wrong-number-of-args ...] 102: 1 [#<procedure 31414c0 at
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:97:6 (thrown-k . args)> wrong-number-of-args ...] In
>> unknown file:
>>    ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 3184220> wrong-number-of-args
>> ...]
>>
>> So, it appears that the problem is not in the file, but rather either
>> a bug in the linux implementation -- or maybe the Ubutu/Mint
>> implementation.
> More precisely it's a bug in gnucash 2.6.1 on linux. It has been fixed 
> in gnucash 2.6.2 or 2.6.3. So getting 2.6.6 installed on linux will get 
> rid of this for you.
>
>> So, I have been able to do what I set out to accomplish, but only
>> using a Windows machine!  I would certainly prefer to be able use my
>> Linux box for all tasks.  Any suggestions?
> As I don't use Mint or Ubuntu, I can only suggest to try as Colin 
> proposed. Good luck!
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
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Thank you for your response.  I attempted the getdeb installation twice
with the same, strange result.  I'll try it again at some point.  Or
perhaps I'll attempt compiling from source, if I can find clear enough
instructions.  Or perhaps I'll just wait for Ubuntu to update its
repository.  I don't usually have to run this report, and I have been
able to get done what I needed to do using the version installed on Windows.

Thank you again,

Richard