[GNC] Gnucash 3.3 crash after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10
Geert Janssens
geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Thu Oct 25 10:45:14 EDT 2018
If it works when you uninstall guile-2.0-libs there is a bug somewhere. It
should be possible to have two major versions of guile installed next to one
another on a linux system.
Unfortunately I can't help with debugging this further due to lack of time.
Geert
Op donderdag 25 oktober 2018 16:23:10 CEST schreef Colin Law:
> Not sure if there is a confusion here, it wasn't the cache that caused the
> problem, I tried deleting the cache and it didn't help. I had to uninstall
> guile-2.0-libs to fix it.
>
> Colin
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 15:12, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > 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> 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> 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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