[GNC] Report charts are empty on fresh 4.8 install

[Jason Spencer]

Based on some reading, I checked the trace file again, and I also see a few
messages like this:

ERROR <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_get_user_value()] Invalid
key review-transactions for schema org.gnucash.dialogs.sxs.since-last-run

The interesting part being that the schema used is not
org.gnucash.GnuCash.dialogs.... I take it this may have been a problem in
some versions, though it's not clear.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:29 PM Jason Spencer <j8spencer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks very much for the help! The trace file is about 3700 lines long.
> Probably half of them are this message:
>
>  ERROR <GLib-GIO> g_settings_new_full: assertion 'schema != NULL' failed
>
> There's also a variety of these:
>
> WARN <gnc.app-utils.gsettings> [gnc_gsettings_get_settings_ptr()] Ignoring
> attempt to access unknown gsettings schema org.gnucash.GnuCash.*general*
>
> where what's in bold ranges over general.register, general.report,
> dialogs.account, dialogs.preferences, dialogs.fincalc, find,
> window.pages.account-tree.summary, ...
>
> Some other interesting ones:
> ERROR <gnc.app-utils> GVariant* gnc_gsettings_get_user_value(const gchar*,
> const gchar*): assertion 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)' failed
> ERROR <gnc.app-utils> gboolean gnc_gsettings_get_bool(const gchar*, const
> gchar*): assertion 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)' failed
> ERROR <gnc.app-utils> void gnc_gsettings_remove_cb_by_func(const gchar*,
> const gchar*, gpointer, gpointer): assertion 'G_IS_SETTINGS (settings_ptr)'
> failed
>
> Those are the major themes. They seem to repeat in block, but may by
> cycling over different modules. Other than that, everything seems fine :)
>
> If I export the report to html, yes, it opens fine in a browser (firefox
> 108). I'll hold off on Gnome web for now, since the GLIB assertions seem
> like strong lead. I reinstalled libgtk-3-common (version 3.24.33-1ubuntu2)
> and removed my .~/config/dconf/user file, but got the same results in
> gnucash.
>
> Does any of this suggest a new debug route?
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 5:40 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> No, if that doesn't work then something else is interfering with the
>> javascript execution. Look in the tracefile (see
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile) for errors from WebKit.
>>
>> Does the chart display if you export the report to a file and then open
>> the file with your browser? Can you install Gnome Web (also based on
>> WebKitGtk) and test if the exported report displays correctly with that?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2023, at 12:32 PM, Jason Spencer <j8spencer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That doesn't seem to help, at least the way I'm doing it. I tried both of
>> these commands in zsh and got the same result:
>> ➜ WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 gnucash
>>       ~
>>                              ~
>> ➜ export WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1
>>        ~
>> ➜ gnucash
>>
>> Is there a way from within gnucash I can check that? Or is there some
>> package configuration I can check to see what libraries are doing the
>> compositing/rendering?
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:25 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jan 16, 2023, at 2:41 PM, Jason Spencer <j8spencer at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I have just upgraded to Linux Mint 21.1, and installed GnuCash 4.8
>>> > (1:4.8-1build2) from the distro sources. I opened up a file I had in my
>>> > prior install (2.6), and the file opened fine--all accounts and
>>> > transactions seem to be there. But when I run a report with a chart
>>> (say,
>>> > networth linechart or bar graph), the report is a blank screen. If I
>>> > inspect the chart source, the body is a table with 4 empty cells.
>>> >
>>> > If I run a text-based report (e.g. Balance Sheet), I see the report
>>> text
>>> > and links fine, though it is scaled down to 6 or 8 pt font (though the
>>> > style section says 10 and 15 pt fonts.)
>>> >
>>> > Is there some diagnostic I can run to troubleshoot the source of the
>>> > problem?
>>>
>>> This is probably a distro problem with Webkit. Try setting
>>> WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 in the environment before running GnuCash.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>