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

Thu Oct 25 10:10:16 EDT 2018

On the second machine you might try uninstalling GnuCash before doing the upgrade, then check /usr/lib/gnucash/scm/ccache to make sure it has been removed. (That path might be off a bit, I don’t remember if Ubuntu uses /usr/lib/gnu-linux-x86_64/ or does its own /usr/lib specialization.)

You might also make sure that there’s no /home/colin/.caches/guile/2.0/ccache.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:06 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This was an Ubuntu 18.04 machine with 2.16.9 installed from the Ubuntu repo. I upgraded the machine to Ubuntu 18.10 and GC got upgraded to 3.3 from the repo.  The machine has a long history however so it is not possible to say how the guile libs were installed.
> 
> I do have another machine still running Ubuntu 18.04 and GC 2.6.19 and I see it has guile-2.0 installed and not guile-2.2.  I will be upgrading that one once I am happy that Ubuntu 18.10 does not have any major problems.
> 
> Colin
> 
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 01:10, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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