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

[John Ralls]

Good detective work.

Guile is supposed to be able to handle having multiple versions installed and to link the right libraries, but I suppose if you had guile-2.0-compiled files in a guile cache and guile-2.2-compiled ones installed by the .deb it might get confused. Was this a clean install of Ubuntu or were you upgrading and using a GnuCash you’d built yourself before upgrading?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Oct 24, 2018, at 9:40 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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