[GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem

[John Ralls]

Yeah, we're going to do a snap release tomorrow. I've already tagged it and built the tarballs.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 27, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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