[GNC] Gnucash report crash

[Cam Ellison]

On 2025-05-22 17:26, Cam Ellison wrote:
> On 2025-05-22 16:38, John Ralls wrote:
>> Since it manifests when you select a report either WebKit or ICU is 
>> more likely to be the problem than boost. I don’t think there’s 
>> anything in reports or html that uses boost.
>
> I wonder at that, but the only change in the dependencies involves the 
> boost libraries.
>
> Running from the command line yields this: Could not create GBM EGL 
> display: EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED. Aborting..
>
> That definitely is not from boost.
>
>> Getting a stack trace should indicate precisely what is the problem, 
>> but if it’s a dependency issue you’ll need a recompile of GnuCash 
>> with the latest versions. File a bug with Debian and include the 
>> stack trace.
>
> I shall do that. First, I may reboot the machine. It may be an nvidia 
> library problem - I can't recall an upgrade recently. There may be an 
> interaction among libraries involved.
>
Rebooting the machine solved the problem. The stack trace repeated the 
error message above. It's been a while since the kernel was updated, but 
the change would have occurred then. I suspect the boost libs somehow 
triggered something.

Anyway, all is well, and thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Cheers

Cam