[GNC] Crash in Scheduled transactions --> Mortgage and Loan Repayment tool on Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

[guardian]

Helloeveryone,



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BottomLine Up Front (BLUF): 




Thesegmentation fault error I experienced in gnucash seems to be causedby the system locale being set to “C.UTF-8.” 




WhenI changed the locale from “C.UTF-8” to “en_US.UTF-8” the“Mortgage & Loan Repayment” GUI worked as expected.




Hence,“maybe” no changes to the source code are needed.




Ican set the locale to “en_US.UTF-8” when using gnucash.



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Errorreproduced with the following versions of GnuCash used on Linux Mint22.1 with Cinnamon desktop and locale set to “C.UTF-8”:




 gnucashversion 5.5

 gnucashversion 5.16

 AppImagebuild of gnucash version 5.16

 Flatpak build of gnucash version 5.16



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Iexecuted gnucash from the command line with locale set to“en_US.UTF-8” via:




 LANG=“en_US.UTF-8”gnucash




andthe “Mortgage & Loan Repayment” GUI worked as expected.




Hence,I can change the desktop “Exec” line (as a work around fix forthis issue):




 from“gnucash %f” to “env LANG=“en_US.UTF-8” gnucash %f”



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Toreproduce the error on Linux, execute gnucash with locale set to“C.UTF-8” and navigate to “Actions -> Scheduled Transactions-> Mortgage & Loan Repayment” and complete the steps in theGUI windows.



Note:On Linux, gnucash can be started with locale set to “C.UTF-8” viathe command line with:

 LANG=“C.UTF-8”gnucash



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Ifyou can, please confirm the occurrence of this error when the localeis set to “C.UTF‑8”




Ihope this information is helpful.




Respectfully,




guardian