[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10

[Colin Law]

Yes, that was the issue (two versions of boot-9.scm).  Having checked
dependencies and so on, including doing a dry run remove to check it wasn't
going to remove anything critical,  I uninstalled guile-2.0-libs and now it
runs ok.

So is this a packaging bug?

Colin

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 16:39, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Further to this I see I have two files ice-9/boot-9.scm
> /usr/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/boot-9.scm
> /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/boot-9.scm
> Could it be picking up the wrong one, or is that a red herring?
>
> Colin
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:57, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10.  This upgraded GC from 2.6.19 (at
>> least I think it was 19) to 3.3 and now GC crashes immediately on startup.
>> Starting in a terminal gives result below.  There is nothing in the trace
>> file.  On another machine with a fresh install of 18.10 GC 3.3 runs fine so
>> I guess it is to with updated file locations or something.
>>
>> 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 55…>)
>> 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 7f649fe8c2b8 …>)
>>    260:13  1 (for-each #<procedure 55f6e50dd4e0 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
>>
>>