gnucash coredump gnome

[Cliff McDiarmid]

         Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 9:07 PM
   From: "Cliff McDiarmid" <cliffhanger at gardener.com>
   To: "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com>
   Subject: Re: gnucash coredump gnome
        >On 19 December 2017 at 22:19, cliffhanger at gardener.com
   <cliffhanger at gardener.com> wrote:
   > Using Linux with gnome see message for ver. Gnucash was installed
   with dpkg.
   >Oh, you mean Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS. You say you installed using
   >dpkg, do you mean apt-get install? If you used dpkg where did you get
   >?the deb file?
   >To give us more information what do see if you run in a terminal:
   >apt-cache policy gnucash
   >But first run
   >sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
   >which will make sure everything is up to date (dist-upgrade does not
   >try to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu, it just makes sure
   >everything is up to date for that version). Obviously report if that
   >shows any errors
   >
   >
   > -------- Original Message --------
   > Subject: Re: gnucash coredump gnome
   > From: Colin Law
   > To: Cliff McDiarmid
   > CC: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
   >
   >
   > On 19 December 2017 at 19:20, Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
   >>
   >> Hi
   >>
   >> Just joined. i have been using Quicken for 24years running under
   Wine!
   >> It's now time to change, problems with older versions of it.
   >>
   >> I'm running Gnome 16.04LTS. But I have problems with my first foray
   into
   >> Gnucash. It is coredumping without starting, version 1:2.6.12-1.
   Other
   >> versions also dump. I've run it with Strace and the log is attached.
   AFAIK
   >> all dependencies are satisfied.
   >
   > Which OS are you using and how did you install gnucash?
   >
   > Colin

   Thanks Colin and all, but in the end I managed to compile from source
   and it started first time!  I had wanted to do this originally but had
   problems with guille.

   All I've got to do now is learn the damn thing.

   Cliff