Segmentation Fault

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 23, 2018, at 8:10 AM, C M Reinehr <cmr at reinehr.net> wrote:
> 
> This morning I am unable to start Gnucash. Whenever I try I receive the following message:
> 
>> ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
>> ;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
>> ;;; compiling /home/cmr/.gnucash/gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm
>> ;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/cmr/.gnucash/gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm failed:
>> ;;; ERROR: no code for module (gnucash gettext)
>> Found Finance::Quote version 1.35
>> Segmentation fault
> and the program terminates.
> 
> I have been running Gnucash v 2.6.4 for some time now on my Debian system -- "Jessie, v 8.10. All programs & libraries are up to date.
> 
> I know that I could update Gnucash to a more current version but I prefer to run a "clean" Debian stable (in this case, old stable) system. Until recently this version of Gnucash has been more than satisfactory.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

You’re deceiving yourself about running a “clean” system: gnctimeperiod-utilities.scm is part of Doug Doughty’s transaction report extensions, not part of GnuCash proper.

The error suggests that the compilation can’t find /share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/gettext.scm or /lib/gnucash/scm/ccache/2.0/gnucash/gettext.go. The most likely cause is that the environment variables GUILE_LOAD_PATH and GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH have gotten changed somehow.

Regards,
John Ralls