[GNC] Gnu Cash stopped working 2 days ago.

[John Ralls]

log.conf is not necessary to generate trace files. If it was GnuCash would automatically create a default.

David may still be misled by the typos in my earlier message. Ken Farley corrected them. The tracefile can be found via Terminal with $TMPDIR/gnucash.trace. One can redirect it to somewhere else with the --logto option, e.g.

  /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --logto $HOME/gnucash_errors

will write it to a file named "gnucash_errors" in the user's home directory.

The original error message David posted, 

> 
> (process:46072): gnc.gui-WARNING **: 20:54:04.010: [mac_set_languages()] Language list: en:en_GB:C
> Backtrace:
>           3 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 12de8dda0>)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2312:4  2 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 13124d5e0 at ice-9/e…>)
> In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>     36:6  1 (read-and-eval #<input: string 1312371c0> #:lang _)
> In unknown file:
>           0 (read #<input: string 1312371c0>)
> 
> ERROR: In procedure read:
> In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 9739
> 

is a scheme backtrace. It has nothing at all to do with the backend nor could it be emitted by a SQL server or SQLite3.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Sep 24, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Jediator <jediator at artemisspace.com> wrote:
> 
> David, You need to create the log.conf file manually first on your Mac to enable tracing.  Please see this thread for details (https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-September/108759.html).
> 
> Are you using the default sqlite as the GC database?  The error message of "procedure value out of range" you posted indicates this might be a database problem.  If you are on a Mac, your can just run /sqlite3 your_db.gnucash /to see if this would spit out any errors.  Once you are in the sqlite shell, run the /analyze/ command to check the table/index consistency.
> 
> Good luck!  -- JC
> 
> 
> On 9/24/23 8:25 AM, (Alan) David Smith wrote:
>> I have tried this. Thank you very much for your help but there is still no trace file visible anywhere.
>> 
>> May be version 5.4 will work on my Apple when available, otherwise it looks as though GNUCash has permanently stopped working on my apple computer.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 17/09/2023, 17:13, "(Alan) David Smith"<smith54 at smith54.karoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>> 
>>     There is still no trace file. But you now have crash report.
>> 
>>     On 17/09/2023, 15:13, "gnucash-user on behalf of Ken Farley"<gnucash-user-bounces+smith54=smith54.karoo.co.uk at gnucash.org on behalf of farleykj at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>         I think you might be missing some of the steps you were asked to
>>         perform, so here they are:
>> 
>>         (1) Run Gnucash while telling it to save a trace file. This file lists
>>         all the actions of the program. This is done with the command (on MacOS):
>> 
>>         /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --debug
>> 
>>         This will run Gnucash, presumably until it crashes, while writing a
>>         trace file in the directory specified by the environment variable TMPDIR
>>         on your system.
>> 
>>         (2) To make the trace file more accessible, you copy it to your user
>>         directory. To be sure it's in this location, perform the following two
>>         commands:
>> 
>>         cd
>> 
>>         cp $TMPDIR/gnucash.trace .
>> 
>>         (3) Now that you have this tracefile, you want to provide it to the
>>         folks on the mailing list who can interpret such things. Since it's
>>         likely a very long file, it is not a good idea to copy and paste it's
>>         contents into a message. Instead, when you reply to the mailing list,
>>         you attach the file to the message, usually by dragging and dropping the
>>         file in Outlook, or using the "Attach File" button, etc.
>> 
>> 
>>         Hopefully, if you do these things, someone will be able to figure out
>>         where your installation is going wrong.
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