On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:09 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > 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. > > hmmm... try this: > > launch gnucash with the --nofile flag. Then head into preferences and > make sure the automatic running of scheduled transactions is turned > off. Edit -> Preferences -> Scheduled transactions -> "Run when data > file opened". Make sure that's unchecked. Then open your data file and > see what happens. One of the problems in the past was a crash from > sched txns running automatically. Again, it's been a while for me, so > I'm just guessing... > Thanks very much; I really do appreciate the help. My problem is no opening the data file; that opens fine. It is opening an account. Nonetheless, I tried this and had the same problem. > [...] > > > Argh!!! This is getting very frustrating - probably all my ignorance. I > > rebuilt the debs and still get the same segfaults. Here's what I did > > (from our internal docs): > > > > Some of the steps need to be done as root so we will need to create a > > root console. Install the needed packages for building > > apt-get -t lenny-backports install devscripts build-essential > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list by adding a Lenny Backports source repository > > such as the following: > > deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib > > non-free > > Make apt aware of the repository: > > apt-get update > > Other steps MUST not be done by root so we need another user console to > > do the following steps. > > We next need to download the source and rebuild it > > mkdir /data/Tech/download/gnucash > > cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash > > apt-get -t lenny-backports source gnucash gnucash-common > > what output did the above command produce? > > > We need to install dependencies and this must be done as root so return > > to the root console and do: > > cd /data/Tech/download/gnucash > > apt-get -t lenny-backports build-dep gnucash gnucash-common > > Return to the user console > > cd gnucash-2.2.6 > > debuild -us -uc > > cd .. > > The two .deb files should be in this directory and can be installed > > where needed > > > > > > I then installed them with dpkg -i. It clearly stated it was replacing > > gnucash and gnucash common: > > > > jasiii:/data/download/gnucash# ls > > gnucash-2.2.6 gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.changes > > gnucash_2.2.6-2.diff.gz gnucash_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz > > gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.build gnucash_2.2.6-2_amd64.deb > > gnucash_2.2.6-2.dsc gnucash-common_2.2.6-2_all.deb > > these are all version 2.2.6, the same one that was giving you > trouble. You need the source for 2.2.9... > > A Well, perhaps I have a misunderstanding here. If I try to build 2.2.9 (what I first tried), running apt-get build-dep wants to bring in all the libraries from testing that I'm trying to avoid; I might as well install from the testing repository.
On the other hand, I thought that by compiling 2.2.6 with the newer libglib2 libraries, it would call them properly and no longer seg fault. Am I going about this the wrong way? Thanks again - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1268705187.5897.51.ca...@family.pacifera.com