Reports crashing

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Bernd Jansons <bernd at berndjansons.com>
wrote:

> Thanks. I have nspluginwrapper installed. I will check to see if all its
> dependencies are met.
>
>
If you don't need it, I recommend removing it completely. It's not
available in Xenial, so the package you had was "automatically" converted
when you did the upgrade. If you're using it for a particular plugin, I'd
look for an alternative.



> On Wed, 04 May 2016 01:08:00 +1000, Tommy Trussell <
> tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You might look to see if you have nspluginwrapper or konqueror-nsplugins
> installed. If you had those packages installed in Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty,"
> maybe the upgrade to 16.04 "Xenial" tried to upgrade them and failed. The
> first one doesn't even seem to be available in Xenial. According to my
> reading, the nspluginwrapper plugin is discouraged because modern browsers
> handle the sandboxing better.
>
> I've been assuming you're using Ubuntu, but if you're using Kubuntu (or
> parts of it), it could be Konqueror that's causing the problem.
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know how much it matters (because I suspect the problem isn't
>> with GnuCash itself but another place), but in order to get useful symbols
>> in the trace file you'll also need to install the gnucash-dbg package.
>>
>> I don't know much about the NSPlugin-Viewer that's crashing, but I assume
>> it's stumbling over something installed (or partly installed) in Firefox,
>> Chrome or Chromium. It wouldn't be anything GnuCash installed, I think.
>> From my (possibly misguided) Internet searches, it sounds like
>> NSPlugin-Viewer allows non-native plugins to be used in a web browser.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Bernd Jansons <bernd at berndjansons.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, Maf. A trace file is opened on program startup but no data is
>>> written to it when the program crashes (ie. file size after abnormal
>>> termination is 0 bytes). I'm assuming the program falls over before the
>>> error routines can fire up.
>>>
>>> Bernd
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 03 May 2016 17:52:31 +1000, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Bernd.
>>>>
>>>> I take it the stuff you posted earlier was console output.  Looks to me
>>>> like
>>>> something is really screwed up somewhere!
>>>>
>>>> Can you post a tracefile from a crashing instance, too?  I probably
>>>> won't be
>>>> able to help with it, but others here may be able to.
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>>>>
>>>> 0.02
>>>> Maf.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 17:42:39 BST Bernd Jansons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Colin. Yes, absolutely right. Just ran that very request
>>>>> "Reports>Assets ..." etc and, true to form, gnucash crashed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bernd
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 03 May 2016 17:23:15 +1000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > On 3 May 2016 at 00:37, Bernd Jansons <bernd at berndjansons.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >> The screen dump of the gnucash error report follows. BTW, thanks for
>>>>> >> helping
>>>>> >> out. I appreciate your help.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Can you just confirm what you said at the start, that this happens on
>>>>> > any report, even if you just click Reports > Assets and Liabilities >
>>>>> > Balance Sheet, for example.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Colin
>>>>>
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