[GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem

Tue Sep 28 10:05:22 EDT 2021

Hi Thomas,

No. Our testing shows it only is an issue for linux users (including flatpak 
users). The Windows and Macos packager work fine.

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 28 september 2021 15:57:22 CEST schreef Thomas Forrester:
> 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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