[GNC] Gnucash 3.0-1 crashes on MacOS 10.13.4

[John Ralls]

OK.

The “could not obtain the lock” dialog is expected after a crash.

Please open a bug and attach (don’t copy-and-paste) one of the several crash reports you will have accumulated. You can access them via /Applications/Utilities/Console. Select “User Reports” from the sidebar. Control click on a report name and select “Reveal in Finder” to get the file to attach to the bug.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Apr 15, 2018, at 5:41 AM, Subramanian Venkateswaran <subramanian.venkateswaran at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for your mail.
> 
> I could not find any transaction before 1st April 2009 with the approach you said.
> 
> I use Gnucash to record only personal finance.
> 
> If it helps, it always informs me that there is a lock and when I choose open anyway, it crashes with the error that I mentioned in the above mail.
> 
> Regards,
> Subramanian V.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018, 7:24 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> Subramanian,
> 
> Another user tracked down the cause of that exception in his file to a bad date, 206-01-02; it should have been 2016-01-02. In his case the error was in an invoice. The exception was due to trying to convert ‘206-‘ into a number.
> 
> I’ve changed the date parser logic to prevent the exception for 3.1, but in the meantime you can scour your data using 2.6.19. You can use Edit>Find from the accounts page to search for any transaction earlier than whatever date you like as long as it’s after 1400-01-01. If you use the business features also search Invoices and Bills (Business>Customer>Find Invoice and Business>Vendor>Find Bill).
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 10:56 PM, Subramanian Venkateswaran <subramanian.venkateswaran at gmail.com <mailto:subramanian.venkateswaran at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am having similar issues as well.
>> 
>> Setup file : Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg
>> MacOs : 10.13.3
>> 
>> I tried to execute Gnucash from terminal.
>> 
>> I get the following error.
>> 
>> libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type boost::exception_detail::clone_impl<boost::exception_detail::error_info_injector<boost::bad_lexical_cast> >: bad lexical cast: source type value could not be interpreted as target
>> Abort trap: 6
>> 
>> The same file works perfectly fine in GnuCash 2.6.19
>> 
>> Let me know what more details needed.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Subramanian V.
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 8:43 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > On Apr 13, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Roderick Averill <rod.averill.pa at gmail.com <mailto:rod.averill.pa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > I downloaded Gnucash-Intel-3.0-1.dmg. I open the package with disc mounter with no issue.
>> > 
>> > When I try to open the application it never opens up and the dialog box disappears.
>> > 
>> > Any guidance would be appreciated.
>> > 
>> > I’ve been using 2.6.19 for a while with no issues.
>> 
>> Drag it out of the disk image to somewhere else, then double click on that. You can have both 3.0 and 2.6.19 installed on the same machine as long as they’re either in different places or you give them different names.
>> 
>> If GnuCash 3.0 is crashing there should be a crash report. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console and click on “User Reports” in the sidebar. The reports are named with the application name and a timestamp.
>> 
>> If it’s just quitting without a crash report, examine the trace file[1]. If there’s nothing informative there try running it from the command line (start /Applications/Terminal and type “/path/to/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash”, making the obvious substitution). The reason for the shutdown may be displayed on the terminal output.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
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