Gnucash crash

Thank you for your bug report. Can you please try to get a backtrace with debug symbols by following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash ? The importing situation could be possibly be a different problem - try getting a backtrace for that as well and file a second bug report (if they end up being the same problem, we will just mark them as duplicates). Once again, thanks.

Aparently gnucash doesn't like being run by gdb. It crashes right out of the box. But, running it regular like, I get the crash dialogue with a little bit more info. Ive attached both.

The "crash when importing data" has already been reported in bug #53904, which does not seem to have attracted any Ubuntu maintainer attention. There are clearly one (or more) bugs here.

As another tidbit, I tried 2.0.1 on both edgy and on dapper. Dapper worked, edgy did not. I have a feeling that gnucash may not be aware of some change in the edgy libraries.

I have a very similiar problem - only, the program ocassionally hangs instead of crashing. Anyway, I have attached a backtrace (I had to gdb gnucash-bin, but I have previously sourced all variable-setting code from /usr/bin/gnucash, therefore making sure that the execution environment is ok)

Aleksander, please file a seperate bug report. It doesn't seem to be the same issue...

This crash only occurs when the file chooser is used. If you can avoid the file chooser, gnucash works fine. Unfortunately, its kinda hard to avoid it. I'm going to try getting a back trace in the same way as the guy above.

I see this crash with the stock packages, but in none of my self-compiled installations. Could the packager try to remove the four lines containing gnctreemodelsort and gtktreedatalist from src/gnome-utils/Makefile.am and see whether this helps? If it does, we will probably rename gtktreedatalist (as there seems to be some linking conflict with gtk) upstream.

I just installed the most recent gnucash version from edgy repositories, 2.0.0-1ubuntu2.

Unfortunately, the problem persists. Any usage of the file chooser results in a crash or hang.

That was just an upgrade related to some big library change. If I understand correctly, the bug is upstream and would require UVF exception or something similiarily nice.

For reference: Applying http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/14761?format=diff should fix this issue.

aleander@HumanError:~$ apt-get source gnucash
aleander@HumanError:~$ cd gnucash-2.0.0/
aleander@HumanError:~$ patch -p3 < /home/aleander/Desktop/Changeset14761.diff
aleander@HumanError:~$ dch -i
[modified the version for better synaptic experience :>]
aleander@HumanError:~$ sudo debuild
[after some time...]
aleander@HumanError:~$ sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb

And it works. Thank you. Any chance for this getting into the official packages sometime soon?

FWIW, I pulled down the 2.0.1 Gnucash source and built and the problem exists. The file browser just hangs.

i to started gnucash in edgy and when i went to the files chosser , it was ok, to create my accounts, but when i go to save the file save crashes and kills the application, i just re started the gnucash and got this error

I applied the above patch and produced a debdiff. Its attached.

On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 03:04 +0000, Scott Henson wrote:
> I applied the above patch and produced a debdiff. Its attached.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Patch against latest gnucash in edgy."
> http://librarian.launchpad.net/4291206/gnucash.diff
>
how is the patch applied to work around the error?
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reassigning from MOTU to motureviewers (because of the debdiff)

Patch looks fine, I'll build, test & upload soon.

gnucash won't build until a newer version of g-wrap is synced from debian, so it may take a little while for the fix to come through

I can confirm the issue. I rebuilt the whole set of packages (2.0.1) with the above patch but the problem did NOT go away for me.

Here is another backtrace of the patched and crashed gnucash.

A problem I could imagine: This patch will only work on systems with automake installed, unless you actually patch Makefile.in's.

jfyi, I'm still having the file-dialog related crashes with
gnucash 2.0.1-3ubuntu2, which according to changelog.Debian is supposed to close this very malone bug ;-)

Yep. Here too. Save as..., Cancel, the application hangs.

Creating a new file also hangs Gnucash. Applying the patch from http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/14761?format=diff to the previous version removed the bug for me.

I can confirm that hand-editing the corresponding Makefile.in (which haven't been regenerated in 2.0.1-3ubuntu2) as well (see attached diff) and rebuilding the package fixes the crashes for me

Sorry about that, I'll re-run automake on it & upload again.

Could those who are able to get 2.0.1-3ubuntu3 confirm that the bug is finally fixed now? (amd64 & ppc builds are still waiting, i386 should be in the archive)

seems OK here.

I'm happy to report that with the latest version (2.0.1-3ubuntu3), I can again import .qfx files. Bug appears to be fixed. Hurray!

The problems with save as/open dialogs have disappeared. Therefore the bug seems to be fixed. Thank you :-)

I can confirm as well, that after manipulating Makefile.in and rebuilding the problems are gone.