[GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem

Tue Sep 28 11:35:31 EDT 2021

Please remember to reply to gnucash-user at gnucash.org rather than to me 
directly.

Other than that I don't understand your remark/concern. Your data is not 
affected by this bug at all. It's not lost and hence there's no need "to get 
it back".

Or perhaps you're referring to another conversation I have missed ?

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 28 september 2021 16:31:41 CEST schreef Thomas Marks:
> Thanks for the reply Geert, but the question remains HOW DO I GET MY DATA
> BACK? All the technical stuff in your reply means nothing to an end user
> like me. 
> Thomas Marks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geert Janssens
> Sent: Sep 28, 2021 10:05 AM
> To: John Ralls ,
> Cc: gnucash-user
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash 4.7 Problem
> 
> 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 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 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 > >>> 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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