[GNC] Gnucash crashes after upgrade

[Adrien Monteleone]

#2, You are posting in the right place.

Flatpak has some sandbox issues as I understand, but this doesn’t look like one of them.

#1, Check out: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations in the meantime to investigate why the Flatpak 3.7 version might be finding your data file. (if it is stored in the default location, that would make sense)

Of course, if the file isn’t really open elsewhere, and a lock file exists, either deleting that lockfile prior to opening the data file, or choosing to ‘open anyway’ will reset the lockfile and open the data file successfully. I generally choose ‘open anyway’ after a crash because I know for a fact it isn’t still open elsewhere and there is no danger of edit collision.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 18, 2019 w38d261, at 9:42 PM, Brian M. Sutin <gnucash3 at skewray.com> wrote:
> 
> I installed 3.7 from flatpak, but then I couldn't find the executable. So, I uninstalled the flatpak, downloaded the source and compiled it. I also deleted every single .XXX file in my home directory that had 'gnucash' in the title. Oddly, even with all initialization files deleted, gnucash 3.7 still finds by Gnucash accounts file, and complains that it is locked. Second, it still crashes.
> 
> Question 1: How did Gnucash 3.7 find my previous accounts file and the lock? Where is that information stored?
> 
> Question 2: Now that I have a recent version that core dumps, what do I need to post to spelunk the problem? Or do I post that elsewhere?
> 
> -- 
>  Brian M. Sutin