[GNC] No such file or directory error finding libgnc-expressions-guile.so

[John Haiducek]

The file and its parent directory are both world-readable

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:46 AM R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably a silly question, but does the .so file have permissions
> that let it be read by your account? And/or what about the
> containing directory?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:19 AM John Haiducek <jhaiduce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After upgrading to gnucash 5.5 on Fedora 38 (using the rpm package for
>> gnucash from the Fedora repos), I get the following error trying to start
>> gnucash:
>>
>> $ gnucash
>> Backtrace:
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>   3536:20 19 (_)
>>    2835:4 18 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 7fb1618d6930 at ice-…>)
>>   3556:26 17 (_)
>> In unknown file:
>>           16 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/report/html-utilities" #<…>)
>> In html-utilities.scm:
>>      32:0 15 (_)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>   3927:20 14 (process-use-modules _)
>>    222:17 13 (map1 (((gnucash report report-core))))
>>   3928:31 12 (_ ((gnucash report report-core)))
>>   3326:17 11 (resolve-interface (gnucash report report-core) #:select …)
>> In ice-9/threads.scm:
>>     390:8 10 (_ _)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>   3252:13  9 (_)
>> In ice-9/threads.scm:
>>     390:8  8 (_ _)
>> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>   3536:20  7 (_)
>>    2835:4  6 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 7fb1618d6810 at ice-…>)
>>   3556:26  5 (_)
>> In unknown file:
>>            4 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/report/report-core" #<pro…>)
>> In report-core.scm:
>>      26:2  3 (_)
>> In unknown file:
>>            2 (load-extension "libgnc-expressions-guile" "scm_init_sw…")
>> In system/foreign-library.scm:
>>    190:25  1 (load-foreign-library _ #:extensions _ # _ #:search-path …)
>> In unknown file:
>>            0 (dlopen "libgnc-expressions-guile.so" 1)
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure dlopen:
>> In procedure dlopen: file "libgnc-expressions-guile.so", message
>> "libgnc-expressions-guile.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>> or directory"
>>
>> I can confirm that /usr/lib64/gnucash/libgnc-expressions-guile.so exists.
>> Obviously this looks like a bug, but I'm not sure if it's a gnucash bug or
>> a packaging problem on the Fedora side. Can anyone help me figure out
>> which
>> it is? Any possible workarounds to try?
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