[GNC] GnuCash 5.5 Windows 11 crashing when running reports

[john]

Yes, it's a Windows-only problem.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jan 5, 2024, at 20:12, Jediator <jediator at artemisspace.com> wrote:
> 
> Does it mean that this won't be an issue for MacOS users? No report crash for running GnuCash on Mac?  Thanks!
> 
> On 1/5/24 11:36 AM, john wrote:
>> No need to troubleshoot, that's already been done. This is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799167, and is caused by a crash in WebKit's Javascript engine. I've been trying, so far without success, to get a build of WebKit on Windows with enough debugging symbols to show me the problem. WebKitGtk dropped support for Windows 9 years ago so I can't ask them for help.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 5, 2024, at 06:44, Leland Webb <leland at englishgardenschool.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hopefully this is the right way to ask for help with this issue.
>>> 
>>> I've been out of the office for a couple weeks, and coming back in today I
>>> entered a bunch of bills into our GnuCash books. At one point, I needed to
>>> confirm some details about the payment history of a vendor, I opened the
>>> Vendor Report tab, which opened fine, but didn't have any data, as there
>>> was no vendor selected. Went into options, selected a vendor, and when I
>>> clicked 'Apply" GnuCash hung for about half a second with a white screen
>>> before crashing without any error message.
>>> 
>>> This happens semi-often, so I reloaded and tried again with the same
>>> result. After trying a few other reports, it seems that the GnuCash is
>>> crashing in the same manner when I try to run *any* report that generates
>>> any data.
>>> 
>>> I've tried opening backups from a month ago (when this was definitely
>>> working) and they fail in the same way.
>>> 
>>> I'm not all that sophisticated when it comes to trouble shooting this sort
>>> of thing, so if anyone has any guidance to get me started, I would be most
>>> appreciative!
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Leland Webb
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