[GNC] Repeatable Mac crash

[Robert Kesterson]

I’ve been using GnuCash forever, running the 2.x series up until a 
couple of months ago on Mac High Sierra.  I routinely have two instances 
of Gnucash running — one personal and one business.  A couple of 
months ago I updated to GnuCash 3.2.  Since then I have a 100% 
repeatable crash scenario that I wonder if anyone knows how to solve.

When I open Gnucash, it opens the last file I had open, which is great.  
Then I start the second instance from a terminal with “open -n 
/Applications/GnuCash.app” and it starts up.  Since the most recent 
file is already open, it will complain that it can’t get the lock and 
ask what I want to do.  Since there isn’t an “open a different 
file” option, I hit the button to create a new file.  Gnucash opens.  
Then I pull down the recent files menu and select my other file (for 
example, if personal is open, I select the business file).  Gnucash will 
ask if I want to save the empty set of accounts it created a moment ago. 
  I say no, and it reads my second file.

The moment the second file finishes reading (the progress bar moves all 
the way across), Gnucash crashes.  This is 100% repeatable — happens 
this way every single time, no matter which file I have open first or 
second.

I can then run the second instance again, and the other file will have 
now moved to the position of most recent file opened, and it will open 
automatically.  It will complain that it is locked (since it crashed 
without removing it), and I tell it to ignore it and it will run fine.

Again, this is 100% repeatable.  If there is a known fix, I’d love to 
hear it.  If not, what can I do to help track this down so it can get 
fixed?