On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to > > > > Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel). > > > > Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open > > > > an account. Since these are our production financials, you can imagine > > > > this is quite a problem! > > > > > > > > The end of the gnucash trace file in debug mode shows: > > > > > > Can you please provide output generated by the crash when launching > > > gnucash from a terminal. > > Alas, there is nothing particularly helpful: > > jas...@jasiii:~$ gnucash --debug > > gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at > > configure time. > > > > Found Finance::Quote version 1.13 > > Segmentation fault > > hmmm... okay, a couple of options. > > 1) run gnucash from the command line: gnucash --nofile > which will open an empty gnucash instance. If that doesn't crash, then > try opening your file from the file menu at that point. I suspect this > won't work though, that it will crash. Indeed - had tried that early on and it crashes as soon as I try to open an account. > > 2) install version 2.2.9 from squeeze. this may be problematic as it > may bring in lots of gnome stuff you may not want. I haven't hacked on > gnucash in a while, so I can't say what the state of 2.2.6 was, but I > know there were a couple of problem releases for a bit there. It may > be one of them. I was hoping I could simply sneak in gnucash and gnucash-common but you are exactly right - lots of dependencies from testing that I don't want to bring into this image which needs to be stable for hundreds if not thousands of virtual desktops. > > 3) get on #gnucash on irc.gnome.org and ask there. The channel can be > pretty slow, so you'll have to lurk around for a while. Those guys can > probably figure it out, but be prepared to defend your reasons for not > moving up to 2.2.9, the current release. > > 4) build gnucash from source. This isn't as hard as you might > think. do apt-get build-dep gnucash and start there. you'll probably > want to use the --enable-opt-style-install to put it in a different > path to keep from mixing up with dpkg. Given the need to maintain this in some sane way I think this will be our only real option until 2.2.9 hits stable. Off to review how to build debs! Thanks very much - John > > A
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