[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 suddenly crashing on Ubuntu

[Geert Janssens]

Yeah, I don't know either. I suspect the ld_PRELOAD cache has something to do with it, but the exact details escape me as well.
I guess we could solve this by versioning our shared libraries. We will probably start doing that at some point in the future. Until then the solution will remain to remove the offending older library...

Regards,
Geert

Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> schreef op 26 november 2018 22:07:00 CET:
>Thanks Geert, as usual you have hit the nail smack on the head.  I had
>some files left lying around from an old build.  I guess why it should
>suddenly pick up the wrong one is a mystery that may never be solved.
>I don't have any recollection of doing anything that would have
>changed the PATH or anything like that.
>
>Thanks again
>
>Colin
>On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 18:59, Geert Janssens
><geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
>>
>> Colin,
>>
>> gnc-build-userdata-path is defined in libgnc-core-utils.so, a shared
>library
>> part of gnucash. This particular symbol was introduced for gnucash
>3.x or
>> shortly before that in the 2.7 development series to be precise.
>>
>> The error suggests this shared library is not found or more likely
>gnucash
>> finds an older version of this library. Can you check if you have
>more than
>> one version of libgnc-core-utils.so somewhere on your system ?
>>
>> Most likely locations are somewhere under /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geert
>>
>> Op maandag 26 november 2018 17:49:35 CET schreef 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
>> >
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