[GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"

[Kalpesh Patel]

If you do not want to upgrade your live env, may I suggest combination of
VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/), Vagrant
(https://www.vagrantup.com/) and Vagrant Cloud
(https://app.vagrantup.com/boxes/search) to fetch pre-build "boxes"? 

This combo works on any OS but If you are on Windows systems, you can
download another Windows version and work on it for 30 days without needing
a license. Discard the Vagrant instance after you are done...

Be warned about malware that you have your virus protection regime up to
date. While Vagrant boxes are from trust worthy authors, don't lower your
malware/virus surveillance guard for anything.

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:27:05 +1000
From: David Cousens <davidcousens49 at gmail.com>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"
Message-ID: <e6dfa7a35a82915a878c236aec9861298e059e6b.camel at gmail.com>
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Try the following to get more information.
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows_Debugging
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Stack_Trace
Without more information no-one is going to be able to help much. Also
search
the archive from around the 3.0 release date. 

Hopefully you kept a backup of your original file before running 3.8 and
only
ran 3.8 on a copy?

David Cousens


On Sat, 2022-08-27 at 21:00 +0200, rsbrux via gnucash-user wrote:
> I installed GC 3.11 on a PC running Windows 10 21H2 and ran "Check &
Repair
> All" on my GC 2.6.19 XML file (twice).
> Each time, GnuCash crashed after about half an hour.
> The log files do not contain any warnings or error messages.
> What now?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsbrux <rsbrux at yahoo.com> 
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2022 7:06 PM
> To: 'gnucash-user at gnucash.org' <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3 for Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
> 
> > > 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:41:33 -0500
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
> To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3 for Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
> Message-ID: <tebb5t$11i9$1 at ciao.gmane.io>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> Interesting question.
> 
> Perhaps try a 3.x flatpak?
> 
> Otherwise, if you haven't yet jumped from 18.04 to 22.04 maybe an interim
stop
> at 20.04 will get you GnuCash 3.x.
> 
> (Can you even go directly from 18.04 to 22.04? I didn't think it would
even
> give you the option)
> 
> Be sure to review the Wiki about upgrading. You'll need to run Actions >
Check
> & Repair > Check & Repair All at each upgrade of a major version.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> <<
> Thanks for the tips! I came across the Flatpak possibility, but was
dissuaded
> by the apparent complexity of the description at:
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
> 
> David's suggestion:
> > > 
> Another approach to consider is using the 20.04 (focal) live ISO. Just put
the
> ISO on a USB and boot from that, then install gnucash in the live
environment,
> and using that to convert your gnucash data to version 3. That way you
don't
> have to try to install different versions on either 18.04 or 22.04.
> <<
> sounded easier since I had already made a boot disk for Ubuntu Studio
20.04
> LTS.
> Unfortunately, that didn't work.? I was able to boot from the live DVD and
> install GC 3.8.? However, when I tried to run Check & Repair All,
following
> your suggestion, it never finished. Check & Repair gives no indication of
its
> progress in either 2.16.9 or in 3.8.? The menu bar and toolbar flash
> occasionally while Check & Repair is running, but the only indication that
it
> isn't done is that the menu cannot be operated and there is no indication
of
> it having finished.? In the live Ubuntu Studio 20.04 environment, the GUI
> would become unresponsive if inactive for as little as 15 minutes, even
after
> I disabled all suspend, screen lock and screen saver features, making it
> difficult to just let Check & Repair run as long as necessary.? After that
the
> DVD would start working overtime.? I have had a similar problem with the
GUI
> becoming unresponsive in my freshly installed US 22.04, but only if I
leave it
> idle on the login screen.
> At this point I plan to try installing GC 3.8 on a Windows PC to do the
file
> conversion.? Wish me luck!
> 
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