[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

I have tried removing ~/.local/share/gnucash but that didn't make any difference
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 09:55, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have been using version 3.3 installed from the Ubuntu repository on
> Ubuntu 18.10 for some weeks.  Suddenly today it will not open.
> When I run it from the command line I see the output below.
> The gnucash trace file is empty.
> Googling found similar problems during build and suggested renaming
> ~/.cache/guile but that did not help.
> I have another machine running the same version of ubuntu and gnucash
> and it continues to run ok, however it is behind on system updates so
> it is conceivable that an upgrade to something else has caused the the
> problem.  I am not going to update that machine at the moment in case
> it stops working there too.
> I have not knowingly made any changes to the system since it last ran.
>
> Hopefully someone will have some suggestions.
>
> Colin
>
> ~$ gnucash
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2994:20 19 (_)
>    2312:4 18 (save-module-excursion _)
>   3014:26 17 (_)
> In unknown file:
>           16 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/utilities" #<procedure 56…>)
> In utilities.scm:
>      28:0 15 (_)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   3377:20 14 (process-use-modules _)
>    222:17 13 (map1 (((gnucash core-utils))))
>   3378:31 12 (_ ((gnucash core-utils)))
>   2800:17 11 (resolve-interface (gnucash core-utils) #:select _ # _ # …)
> In ice-9/threads.scm:
>     390:8 10 (_ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2726:13  9 (_)
> In ice-9/threads.scm:
>     390:8  8 (_ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2994:20  7 (_)
>    2312:4  6 (save-module-excursion _)
>   3014:26  5 (_)
> In unknown file:
>            4 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/core-utils" #<procedure 5…>)
> In core-utils.scm:
>      40:0  3 (_)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2071:24  2 (call-with-deferred-observers #<procedure 7f094403d2b8 …>)
>    260:13  1 (for-each #<procedure 562dd5c018e0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm…> …)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("Undefined variab…" …) …)
>
> ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
> Undefined variable: gnc-build-userdata-path