[GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 5, 2019, at 6:35 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 5:30 AM Bostjan Vilfan <bjvilfan at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> I tried both, gnucash 3.4 as well as 2.6.26; therefore it could be
>> something with Windows 10 version 1809; in case you are able to figure out
>> something, I am enclosing link to Windows msinfo results:
>> 
> 
> 
>> Regards,
>> bostjanv
>> 
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> There are instructions in the Gnucash wiki on how to get error messages out
> of Gnucash, I am not online right now, so I cannot tell you exactly where,
> I just remember that it is not an easy task.
> 
> There is also a way to start Gnucash from the command line without a data
> file.  Sometimes a bad data file can cause a crash.  Again the exact
> procedure escapes me, but other users or devs may be able to help.
> 
> Sorry I cannot be more help right now.

The instructions are at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile and https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/stack_trace. The trace file is easy. The stack trace is hard only on windows, but is the most useful when you have a crash.

Please don't post either here: Crashes deserve bug reports.

Regards,
John Ralls