[GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem

[Jon Schewe]

The flatpak apears to be broken as well. I run it and nothing appears.

jpschewe at jon-2019:~
>flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash 
F: Ignoring D-Conf migrate-path setting /org/gnucash/GnuCash

~
jpschewe at jon-2019:~
>echo $?
133


On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 09:44 +0200, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Unfortunately this is a bug. I missed a name change in the conversion
> code for 
> gnucash preferences.
> 
> The fix is in the patch attached.
> 
> As this is a crasher we may have to do a hotfix release. What do you
> think 
> John ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
> Op maandag 27 september 2021 06:43:26 CEST schreef John Ralls:
> > Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
> > 
> > Removing /usr/local/lib/gnucash isn't enough. You'd also need to
> > remove at
> > least /usr/local/lib/libgnc* and /usr/local/share/gnucash.
> > 
> > You don't need the whole build directory. There's a single file,
> > install-manifest.txt, that contains all of the files that were
> > installed.
> > With that one file you can do `xargs rm < install-manifest.txt` to
> > uninstall GnuCash. You might consider saving it off somewhere
> > before you
> > delete the build directory.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> > 
> > > On Sep 26, 2021, at 9:08 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr <
> > > w5pny at w5pny.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > That did fix the problem!  I guess I will have to be sure
> > > to keep the old build directory around, so I can do a "make
> > > uninstall"
> > > before building the next release!  Thanks for the fix -- but I
> > > must
> > > say it would be nice to not have to do the "make uninstall" on
> > > the
> > > old release.  Many packages don't even have uninstall in their
> > > Makefiles... (although it would be nice if every one did include
> > > an
> > > uninstall in their Makefiles).
> > > 
> > > Thanks, John!
> > > 
> > >   Harry
> > > 
> > > On 9/26/21 9:41 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
> > > > I think I figured out what you mean --
> > > > you must  mean either do "make uninstall" or "ninja uninstall"
> > > > with 4.6
> > > > before building 4.7 ...
> > > > With I build gnucash and always remove /usr/local/lib/gnucash
> > > > before doing "make install" which might be the same thing.
> > > > If it does, then I'll still have the problem.   I'll give
> > > > it a try though and if it doesn't work, I'll post a tracefile
> > > > to
> > > > the bug reports...
> > > > 
> > > > On 9/26/21 9:34 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
> > > > > I don't have the ninja package installed, so I'm not sure
> > > > > what
> > > > > "make/ninja uninstall" means...>>> 
> > > > > On 9/26/21 9:20 PM, john wrote:
> > > > > > If you didn't already, run make/ninja uninstall in the 4.6
> > > > > > build
> > > > > > directory. Configure and build GnuCash 4.7 in an empty
> > > > > > directory, then
> > > > > > install.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If that doesn't correct the problem get a stack trace of
> > > > > > the crash and
> > > > > > attach it and the trracefile to a new bug report.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > John Ralls
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Sep 26, 2021, at 7:26 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr via
> > > > > > > gnucash-user
> > > > > > > <
> > > > > > > gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This was with Ubuntu 20.04...
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On 9/26/21 8:25 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
> > > > > > > > I just built Gnucash 4.7 from the release page.
> > > > > > > > It built fine, and it runs fine from the build
> > > > > > > > directory,
> > > > > > > > but the installed gnucash binary in /usr/local/bin
> > > > > > > > fails with:
> > > > > > > > Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
> > > > > > > > It only seems to run without error when run from the
> > > > > > > > bin
> > > > > > > > directory where the build is actually done.
> > > > > > > > So I rebuilt Gnucash 4.6 and it's installed binary in
> > > > > > > > /usr/local/bin
> > > > > > > > runs fine.
> > > > > > > > There was no core file even though "core dumped" was
> > > > > > > > displayed with
> > > > > > > > 4.7
> > > > > > > 
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