[GNC] GnuCash 2.6.12 aborts (core dump) on Ubuntu 16 "hash table assertion failed"

[Geert Janssens]

Op maandag 16 september 2019 05:30:16 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> Gordon,
> 
> GnuCash files are completely portable between operating systems. See
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Backup for the details of which files need to
> be copied.
> 
> The code to upgrade the saved reports and similar stuff kicks is driven by
> the location of the files, so copy your 2.6 config files to the 2.6
> locations (generally $HOME/.gnucash). Make sure the new locations
> ($HOME/.config/gnucash on Linux, $HOME/AppData/Roaming/GnuCash on Windows)
> don't exist; if they do GnuCash will decide that the config is already
> migrated. Start up GnuCash and everything should properly migrate.
> 
> That said, flatpak installs are a bit problematic for migration. They're
> seriously sandboxed and I'm not sure that we've figured out everything
> needed to work around the sandboxing.

We don't have to do anything special wrt to the sandbox as it won't affect the 
migration logic (just tested).

The flatpak version of gnucash will still search for the old configuration in
$HOME/.gnucash (that is, not sandboxed)
It will migrate this to locations inside the sandbox though. So make sure the 
following locations don't exist if you want the migration to be triggered:
$HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash
$HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash

Regards,

Geert