[GNC] GnuCash > 2.6.16 Reports crashing

[John Ralls]

David,

He said “crashes”, not “hangs”, so I would think not.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 7, 2018, at 10:27 PM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> If the user is on Windows, could this be a matter of the "Initial Report Taking Forever" bug?
> 
>> On Apr 8, 2018, at 8:25 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2018, at 5:23 PM, Ron Burek <rb66033 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am currently using ver. 2.6.12 and decided to upgrade to 2.6.19 on Win 10
>>> Pro (fully updated). When I use any version greater than 2.6.16 and try to
>>> generate any report, the program crashes.  Ver 2.6.16 and back down to
>>> 2.6.12 work perfectly.
>>> 
>>> Not certain if this is correct but I found a trace report in \user\app
>>> data\local\temp\gnucash.trace.M3PICZ.log with the following line  "*
>>> 18:31:13  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
>>> child process (No such file or directory) ".
>>> 
>>> Can someone please point me towards possible fixes.  Yes, I have tried
>>> searching throughout the mail list and elsewhere but have not found a
>>> solution.
>> 
>> The error message about perl is normal if you haven’t configured online price retrieval.
>> 
>> A crash is worth a bug report, so please file one after running GnuCash from a command prompt (CMD or Powershell):
>> "c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin\gnucash" --debug --extra
>> and running a report that crashes GnuCash. Attach the resulting trace file to the bug report, compressing it first if necessary.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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