Reports crashing

[Bernd Jansons]

OK, I'll check it out. Thanks.

Bernd

On Wed, 04 May 2016 12:44:28 +1000, Tommy Trussell  
<tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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