GNUCash 3.0 crashes on load

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 3, 2018, at 7:05 AM, Joseph Vernice <jvernice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gnucash crashes on opening an XML file (backup of my normally used mysql file). Mysql file eventually loads after 10-15 minutes. It takes only 50 seconds with version 2.6.19
> 
> I have the following error in my gnucash log after 10+ minute loading of mysql data file... :
> 
> WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child process (No such file or directory)
> 
> Any ideas?  Thank you!

This is Windows, right? That error is normal on Windows unless you've run the "Install Online Quotes" tool, as Windows systems don't normally have perl.

 On Windows, slow loading of SQL is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792105, though do note that on the first load there are a couple of data conversions that can take quite a while on any machine. Crash on load of XML has several bugs:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794934
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794933
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793768
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782144

Regards,
John Ralls