[GNC] Linux Mint version of Gnucash 5.4 Stopped Generating Reports

[Nigel Stapley]

I down graded to nvidia-driver 390 which solved the problem , without any
adverse effects as far as I can see.

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 at 05:24, Larry Nagel <laurencenagel42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, John, that did the trick!!!
>
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> On 2023-12-14 08:58, john wrote:
> > It won't be fixed in the next release because it's not something that
> > GnuCash can fix. As you say, the work around is to stop WebKit using
> > the GPU with WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment.
> >
> > There's a typo in your flatpak command line that might trip up
> > somebody not paying close enough attention. The correct command is
> >     WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run org.gnucash.GnuCash
> > with a space between flatpak and run.
> > For users whose distros have screwed up the webkitgtk package and
> > aren't using Flatpak, say
> >     WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash
> > instead or set WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment
> > some other way.
> >
> > Note that this is about webkitgtk not GnuCash so it's completely
> > independent of GnuCash version. It has been reported for GnuCash
> > releases as early as 4.4. Also, while there is a known issue with
> > Nvidia drivers (reportedly resolved by Nvidia Linux driver
> > 535.113.01), there are a couple of other ways that packagers can screw
> > up the webkitgtk dependencies and break GPU acceleration regardless of
> > GPU brand.
> >
> > All of which said, Arch Linux managed to screw up their webkitgtk
> > package so thoroughly that disabling GPU acceleration didn't help.
> > There's a systemd journal crash on
> > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798549 that you can use to
> > recognize the problem. I think Arch have fixed it but it might still
> > manifest in other distros.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> >
> >
> >> On Dec 14, 2023, at 05:16, Charlie Morrison <sail43 at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you have an Nvidia GPU, there is an issue rendering reports in
> >> Linux.  There is a bug report discussing it and it may be fixed for
> >> the next release but I'm not sure about that.  The report information
> >> is there but you can't see it.
> >>
> >> The workaround is to set an environmental variable that disables
> >> compositing in Webkitgtk. You can check to see if this fixes it for
> >> you by starting Gnucash in the terminal using the following command:
> >>
> >> WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpakrun org.gnucash.GnuCash
> >>
> >> If that allows you to see the reports, then setting the environmental
> >> variable "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1" will fix it.  I have no
> >> idea how to do that in Linux Mint however.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/14/23 00:44, Larry Nagel wrote:
> >>> One further addendum:  I can print the report as a PDF, I just
> >>> cannot see the report on my terminal.
> >>>
> >>> Very weird!!!
> >>>
> >>> Larry
> >>> ---
> >>> *Larry Nagel*
> >>> *251 Stanford Avenue*
> >>> *Kensington, CA 94708*
> >>>
> >>> *(510) 558-0842*
> >>> *Cell: (510) 502-6244*
> >>> *laurencenagel42 at gmail.com*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 2023-12-13 22:12, Larry Nagel wrote:
> >>>> My apologies in advance because I think this question has been
> >>>> asked and answered.  I have been running gnucash on Linux Mint and
> >>>> Windows forever, and I am a fairly low impact user.  I only run
> >>>> reports when it's time to see the tax man, so I don't know when
> >>>> simple stored reports like Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet
> >>>> stopped working.  I presently have flathub 5.4.1 running on Linux
> >>>> Mint 21.2.  These same reports work fine on the Windows version of
> >>>> gnucash  [ Version 5.4 Build ID: 5.3-412-g53245caebf+(2023-09-23)
> >>>> ].  I'm obviously not copying something to the correct location on
> >>>> the flathub version.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
> >>>>
> >>>> Larry
> >>>> ---
> >>>> *Larry Nagel*
> >>>> *251 Stanford Avenue*
> >>>> *Kensington, CA 94708*
> >>>>
> >>>> *(510) 558-0842*
> >>>> *Cell: (510) 502-6244*
> >>>> *laurencenagel42 at gmail.com*
> >>>>
> >>>>
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