[GNC] GnuCash v2.6.19-1 has started freezing on Ubuntu 18.04 after a recent system update

Parke parke.nexus at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 02:49:27 EDT 2019


On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:11 PM Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> I *think* a newer (3.x) release was backported to the Ubuntu 18.04 backport repos, but I could be mistaken. Search the list (or repos) for more info.

It appears not:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&exact=1&searchon=names&keywords=gnucash

> However, 3.x uses GTK3, so the transition might not be super smooth on OpenBox. (I’ve heard there are some issues with some apps, but mileage will vary)

Interesting.  I already have 19.04 installed on a test system, so I
will test GnuCash 3.4 on Openbox and see what happens.


On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:42 PM David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> It may be worth looking at the GnuCash dependencies for 2.6.2 (these should
> apply for 2.6.19) shown in https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Dependencies and
> see if any were upgraded.

Is there an easy way to display what was upgraded when?  I don't know
how to get apt to display that information.  And I don't manually
track it.

> Normally newer versions than the specified version
> are OK. You should have the GTK2 libraries for v2.6. The GTK3 and GTK2
> libraries can be coinstalled if other software requires GTK3.

It appears I already have both GTK2 and GTK3 installed on the Ubuntu
18.04 system.

> Have never experienced freezing problems in GnuCash but I use Evolution as a
> mail client and it has produced a fault which wipes the screens and locks
> the system. Hard disk indexation can sometimes lock the system up and deny
> you access as well.

When GnuCash freezes, the CPU cores on my system are mostly idle.  So
there is no CPU or disk bottleneck that I can see.

Thanks to both Adrien and David for the suggestions!


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