[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 23:21:04 EDT 2019


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:06 PM Adrien Monteleone
<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> If you really wanted to track this down, you could grep the various 2.6.x dependencies against those logs to see if any of them were updated in the time interval that would account for the change in behavior.

If someone else wants to analyze my update logs, I am probably willing
to provide a copy.  (I doubt the update logs contain any confidential
information.)

> The downside here is multiple dependencies could have been updated. So without some debugging/error info reported in the tracefile, stderr or elsewhere, you’d have to roll them all back, pin all but one, and then manually update one each at a time until you find the culprit. (and then it might be a combo of culprits!)

Indeed, there is not much clarity.  I am familiar with tracking down
bugs, and I am averse to trying to track this one down (due to the
quantity of work likely involved).  I cannot even reliably reproduce
the freezes.

> Really, you’ll need some actual error message to go any further if more than one was updated. (and certainly if none were)

Probably a bunch were updated.  I don't update regularly, and the last
time I ran GnuCash was in early September.  So you have at least a
six-week window in which a new package (or packages) could have come
out.  Possibly longer depending on when I last updated.

Thanks again!

-Parke


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