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

[John Ralls]

To close the loop on this, guardian filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799806 and it’s fixed in
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/5dedfad75f946666e773e2816826e817928775d8.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 8, 2026, at 10:53 AM, guardian via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> Helloeveryone,
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> BottomLine Up Front (BLUF): 
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> Thesegmentation fault error I experienced in gnucash seems to be causedby the system locale being set to “C.UTF-8.” 
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> WhenI changed the locale from “C.UTF-8” to “en_US.UTF-8” the“Mortgage & Loan Repayment” GUI worked as expected.
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> Hence,“maybe” no changes to the source code are needed.
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> 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”:
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> gnucashversion 5.5
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> gnucashversion 5.16
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> AppImagebuild of gnucash version 5.16
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> 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:
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> LANG=“en_US.UTF-8”gnucash
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> andthe “Mortgage & Loan Repayment” GUI worked as expected.
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> Hence,I can change the desktop “Exec” line (as a work around fix forthis issue):
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> 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.
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> Note:On Linux, gnucash can be started with locale set to “C.UTF-8” viathe command line with:
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> 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”
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> Ihope this information is helpful.
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> Respectfully,
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> guardian
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