[GNC] custom .chk file crashes GnuCash 3.4

[John Ralls]

You are, but GnuCash shouldn’t crash if the .chk file is in the wrong place. Please file a bug. If you can get a stack trace of the crash that will help a lot.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Jan 23, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Mike stagl <m_stagl at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Upon further investigation, it appears that having any custom check
> file in the folder ~/.local/share/gnucash/checks will cause this crash,
> even a working file copied from the GnuCash checks folder (with an
> altered name and GUID).
> 
> I instead placed my custom file in my GNC_DATA_HOME folder (for me
> /usr/local/share/gnucash/checks) and it appears to work again.
> 
> Maybe I wasn't supposed to have my custom file in USER_DATA_HOME?
> 
> Just my experiences,
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 10:34 -0500, Mike wrote:
>> Gnucash 3.4 on Debian 9
>> 
>> I have been using a custom check format (.chk) file I wrote for
>> GnuCash
>> 3.2.  It worked fine until I upgraded to 3.4.  When I go to File-
>>> Print 
>> Checks, GnuCash 3.4 crashes before the dialog box even opens.
>> 
>> If I delete the custom .chk file and open GnuCash 3.4, it will print
>> a
>> default check format fine.
>> 
>> I rolled back to GnuCash 3.2 and my custom file prints fine.
>> 
>> Did anything change with 3.4 that I would need to modify in my .chk
>> file?
>> 
>> Thanks to all the contributors,
>> 
>> Mike
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