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

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Thu Oct 25 11:48:31 EDT 2018


On 10/25/18 1:06 AM, Colin Law 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


Be sure to do a shutdown and power on cycle first on th 18.10.  I lost 
access to my home directory on power up (got a mount:  bad address message).

I had to reload 18.04 and restore files from a backup.  I think part of 
the problem was the home directory was encrypted -- and thus the mount 
issue at login.  BTW, the login just cycled around which was the first 
clue something was wrong.

--Steve

>
> 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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