[GNC] blank reports

[John Ralls]

It’s not Gt,, it’s Nvidia itself. They published a set of broken Linux drivers in spring 2023 and unfortunately distros haven’t done a good job of clearing them out.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Nov 5, 2024, at 19:49, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Noted, but I believe the culprit is GTK -- the bug just shows up on nVidia
> display cards.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 2:43 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ah,  nVidia -- a video chipset that *I* find loathsome, and intend to
>> avoid.
>> It was the motherboard chipset on my recently deceased AMD motherboard --
>> always giving me troubles (if not the video, then the Ethernet controller)
>> --
>> I'd rather get a slightly more costly Intel CPU next time (assuming I ever
>> bother with an x86_64 flavor processor every again).
>> 
>> At Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:33:46 -0600 R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I think the problem started in a later version of the GTK - it manifests
>>> itself on nVidia cards.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 2:31 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm currently running 4.14, built from source under Debian 12 (arm64)
>> on a
>>>> Raspberry Pi 5.  I'm *not* seeing the "blank report" issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Two questions:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Is there an ARM64 flatpak build of 5.9?
>>>> 
>>>> 2. Is it any harder to build 5.9 from source than it was for 4.14?
>>>> Specificly
>>>> are there any problematical build dependencies that would be a problem
>>>> with an
>>>> up-to-date Debian 12 system? (Exotic bleeding edge libraries or
>> compiler
>>>> requirements.)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> At Wed, 6 Nov 2024 05:41:14 +1000 David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Check out this archive post re blank reports on Debian, considering
>> we're
>>>>> up to version 5.9 of Gnucash you might want to consider using the
>> Flatpak
>>>>> version instead details at  - https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers David H.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 at 23:30, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I just tried to start creating my year-end reports for my
>> accountant
>>>> for a
>>>>>> business whose year has just ended, and they are all appearing as
>>>> simply a
>>>>>> black window :-( :-( :-( It seems to be just reports that have this
>>>>>> problem;
>>>>>> the normal Account windows all look fine.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Running debian, fully up-to-date. Gnucash from the official
>> repository,
>>>>>> version 4.13.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I've been doing this for at least a decade, probably a lot longer,
>> and
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> never seen anything like this before. I don't even know where to
>> start
>>>>>> looking
>>>>>> for what might be causing this issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>   Doc Evans
>>>>>> 
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