[GNC] Gnucash fails to run after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04

[James E]

I  used to run  Gnucash 2.6.12  in Ubuntu 14.04 .

I upgraded  to Ubuntu 16.04    . During the upgrade  I was asked if I wanted
to keep several Gnucash   files/piece of information – one of which was  the
Alpha Advantage API key .  I replied that I did .

The upgrade appeared to have finished successfully  . All of the
programmes/applications worked   but  with  one exception – Gnucash.

The Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the day showed  up for a several
seconds 
and both disappeared  again. 

I  then decided to install  Gnucash  from the  Ubuntu Software centre –
hoping that this would be compatible with 16.04   . So I removed the
existing  Gnucash  using the Ubuntu Software centre and installed Gnucash  .   

This failed  in the same way - the Gnucash loading screen and the tip of the
day showed up for a several seconds  and both disappeared again. 

I found from research that Ubuntu repositories usually contain a version of
Gnucash that is a release or two behind the latest stable version and  that
Gnucash 2.6.12 is included in Ubuntu 16.04 –  this is the  same Gnucash
version as I was using   in Ubuntu  14.04 .


I give below  the terminal output  when I tried to run Gnucash :

jm at jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$ gnucash
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;;       or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/report/business-reports.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure #<procedure 5611372c8120 ()>: Unbound variable:
gnc:menuname-business-reports
;;; WARNING: compilation of
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/gnucash/business-gnome.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure #<procedure 561136e6f180 ()>: Unbound variable:
gnc:menuname-business-reports
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 11 [catch #t #<catch-closure 561135f66c00> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 10 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 561135f66c00>]
   ?: 9 [call-with-input-string "(gnc:report-menu-setup)" ...]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2401: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 56113692ecc0 at
ice-9/eval-string.scm:65:9 ()>]
In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
  44: 7 [read-and-eval #<input: string 56113740f1a0> #:lang ...]
  37: 6 [lp (gnc:report-menu-setup)]
In gnucash/report/report-gnome.scm:
 155: 5 [gnc:report-menu-setup]
In unknown file:
   ?: 4 [gnc-hook-run "hook_report" ()]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 387: 3 [eval # #]
 387: 2 [eval # #]
 393: 1 [eval #<memoized gnc:menuname-business-reports> #<directory #
561137149870>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [memoize-variable-access! # #]

ERROR: In procedure memoize-variable-access!:
ERROR: Unbound variable: gnc:menuname-business-reports
jm at jm-OptiPlex-9020:~$

 



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