[GNC] Occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 MacOS 10.11.6

[prl]

Thanks, John.

I'll wait for the next version, then.

Peter

On 27/10/2018 14:16, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Oct 26, 2018, at 7:36 PM, prl <prl at ozemail.com.au 
>> <mailto:prl at ozemail.com.au>> wrote:
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>> I've been having occasional crashes in GnuCash 3.3 on MacOS 10.11.6 
>> (the Mac is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2009 and can't be upgraded to 
>> a more recent MacOS version).
>>
>> The crashes typically happen within the first few transactions that I 
>> enter after starting GnuCash.
>>
>> I've pressed "Report..."  the "GnuCash quit unexpectedly" a couple of 
>> times - but that says it reports to Apple. Is that a useful way of 
>> getting the bug info to the GnuCash devs?
>>
>> Pressing "Reopen" in the popup doesn't seem to do anything. GnuCash 
>> isn't re-opened. Restarting it normally from Finder starts it with 
>> the expected GnuCask popup about the presence of the lock file.
>>
>> I have the stack trace info for the most recent crash, but the 
>> gnucash.trace file appears to have been overwritten when I restarted 
>> GnuCash to do what I was actually trying to do at the time.
>>
>> This is a snippet from the stack trace:
>>
>> Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
>> Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
>> Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
>>
>> Application Specific Information:
>> *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 
>> 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 
>> '-[_CFXNotificationObjectRegistration visibleFrame]: unrecognized 
>> selector sent to instance 0x7f838051eac0'
>> terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
>> abort() called
>>
>> Application Specific Backtrace 1:
>> 0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff980b0452 
>> __exceptionPreprocess + 178
>> 1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff8c23d73c 
>> objc_exception_throw + 48
>> 2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff9811a18d 
>> -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
>> 3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff980204c1 
>> ___forwarding___ + 1009
>> 4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff980c4a48 
>> __forwarding_prep_1___ + 120
>> 5   libgdk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010fb60d02 
>> gdk_quartz_monitor_get_workarea + 98
>> 6   libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f74744f 
>> gtk_window_guess_default_size + 79
>> 7   libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f74116b 
>> gtk_window_compute_configure_request + 299
>> 8   libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f74a921 
>> gtk_window_realize + 641
>> 9   libgobject-2.0.0.dylib              0x000000010ff1da0a 
>> _g_closure_invoke_va + 314
>> 10  libgobject-2.0.0.dylib              0x000000010ff35831 
>> g_signal_emit_valist + 1521
>> 11  libgobject-2.0.0.dylib              0x000000010ff36216 
>> g_signal_emit + 134
>> 12  libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f727c81 
>> gtk_widget_realize + 257
>> 13  libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f6e4b54 
>> gtk_tooltip_show_tooltip + 436
>> 14  libgtk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010f6e517c 
>> tooltip_popup_timeout + 44
>> 15  libgdk-3.0.dylib                    0x000000010fb27992 
>> gdk_threads_dispatch + 50
>> ...
>>
>> Does this look like a known bug? I searched GnuCash Bugzilla for 
>> "_CFXNotificationObjectRegistration visibleFrame" and "" it didn't 
>> find anything useful.
>>
>> It doesn't appear to be the same bug as 
>> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796656
>>
>> I haven't been able to work out a reliable set of actions to trigger 
>> the bug.
>>
>> I'm happy to make a Bugzilla report - is there anything useful I can 
>> put in the report apart from the stack trace and gnucash.trace files?
>>
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> Nope, Apple doesn’t forward crash reports to us.
>
> Yup, it’s a known bug, see 
> https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796889.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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