[GNC] Gnucash 3.0-1 crashes on MacOS 10.13.4

[Subramanian Venkateswaran]

Thanks for the quick reply, John.

Raised bug 795276.

Regards,
Subramanian V

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 8:00 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Apr 13, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Roderick Averill <
>>> 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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