Gnucash crashing on startup

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Sahib Jakhar <sahib.jakhar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was entering data into gnucash, and suddenly it crashed. Ever since
> its crashing, it is crashing on startup. I am using mysql to store
> data on Linux.
> 
> I also deleted manually the entries in splits and transactions table
> corresponding to the last transaction I was entering, but to no avail.
> 
> The following gets printed on the command prompt:
> 
> libsqlite.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> libdbi: Failed to load driver: /usr/lib/dbd/libdbdsqlite.so
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.38
> **
> qof:ERROR:gnc-date.c:1669:timespec_to_gdate: assertion failed:
> (g_date_valid (&result))
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> 
> Also, some (possibly relevant) stuff from /tmp/gnucash.trace is as follows:
> 
> 9104 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal]
> addr=0x35f5a30 set date to 1422815400.000000000 Mon Feb  2 00:00:00
> 2015
> 9105 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal]
> addr=0x35f5a30 set date to 1422895503.000000000 Mon Feb  2 22:15:03
> 2015
> 9106 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal]
> addr=0x35f5a30 set date to 1422874740.000000000 Mon Feb  2 16:29:00
> 2015
> 9107 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.translog> [xaccOpenLog] Attempt to open
> disabled transaction log
> 9108 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.translog> [xaccTransWriteLog] Attempt to
> write disabled transaction log
> 9109 * 01:16:12  CRIT <GLib> g_date_time_format: assertion 'datetime
> != NULL' failed
> 9110 * 01:16:12  CRIT <GLib> g_date_time_unref: assertion 'datetime !=
> NULL' failed
> 9111 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal]
> addr=0x35f5bd0 set date to 18446744011539567616.000000000 (null)
> 9112 * 01:16:12  INFO <gnc.engine> [xaccTransSetDateInternal]
> addr=0x35f5bd0 set date to 1488395668.000000000 Thu Mar  2 00:44:28
> 2017
> 9113 * 01:16:12  CRIT <qof> gnc_localtime_r: assertion 'gdt != NULL' failed
> 9114 * 01:16:12  CRIT <GLib> g_date_set_dmy: assertion
> 'g_date_valid_dmy (day, m, y)' failed
> 
> 
> Can somebody kindly help me, as I use gnucash for storing all my
> financial transactions and it has 5+ years of data?

Please get a stack trace (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace>) of the crash and file a bug report with the stack trace attached.

Regards,
John Ralls