[GNC] Gnucash terminates immediately

[John Ralls]

Probably not.

What are your Language and Region settings? Have you set up a different locale in the environment file?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Feb 5, 2019, at 9:05 AM, Bostjan Vilfan <bjvilfan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I managed to obtain the trace file (which, however, is very short). When I called gnucash without further parameters the trace file was empty; however, when I used "gnucash --debug --extra I obtained
> 
> * 17:19:03  INFO <gnc.gui> [main] System locale returned C
> * 17:19:03  INFO <gnc.gui> [main] Effective locale set to C.
> * 17:19:03  INFO <gnc.engine> [gnc_hook_lookup] no hook lists
> 
> Is the phrase "no hook lists" relevant?
> 
> Regards,
> bostjanv
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:56 PM Bostjan Vilfan <bjvilfan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I'll check them out. 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:43 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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
> >> 
> >>> ______
> >>> 
> >>> 
> > 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
>