[GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem

Tue Sep 28 09:57:22 EDT 2021

Does this affect the pre-built installer packages.  In particular, does
this affect people who have installed 4.7 on Windows?

Thanks.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:18 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> 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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