On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 02:59:09PM -0800, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jan 18, 2020, at 1:00 PM, Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > My wife just switched from Win7 to Ubunt 18.04. she has used GnuCash for 
> > many  years and is comfortable with what she uses it for.
> > 
> > I built a 3.8 for here when I set up the system, built on that system,
> > and until today it has been working fine (built it about 1.5 weeks ago).
> > 
> > All of a sudden today, when she opens an account and attempts to add a new 
> > entry OR to modify an existing entry she gets an instant crash.
> > 
> > Here are some of the pertinent entries from system logs:
> > 
> > from syslog:
> > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138663] 
> > gnucash[20215]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f6d11dca1f2 sp 00007ffdbdec1418 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f6d11d83000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138675] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002039] 
> > gnucash[20549]: segfault at f0 ip 00007fa57dbda1f2 sp 00007fff21b341c8 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7fa57db93000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002051] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801728] 
> > gnucash[20577]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f233fa8a1f2 sp 00007fff789f3c28 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f233fa43000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801740] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > 
> > from kern.log
> > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138663] 
> > gnucash[20215]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f6d11dca1f2 sp 00007ffdbdec1418 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f6d11d83000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:29:12 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189871.138675] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002039] 
> > gnucash[20549]: segfault at f0 ip 00007fa57dbda1f2 sp 00007fff21b341c8 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7fa57db93000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:30:37 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [189956.002051] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89
> > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801728] 
> > gnucash[20577]: segfault at f0 ip 00007f233fa8a1f2 sp 00007fff789f3c28 
> > error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7f233fa43000+eb000]
> > Jan 18 15:31:30 carolyn-ThinkCentre-M72e kernel: [190008.801740] Code: fe 
> > ff 48 83 c4 40 89 05 dc dc 2a 00 5b 5d 41 5c c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b 
> > 87 f0 00 00 00 c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 31 c0 <48> 39 bf f0 00 00 00 0f 
> > 94 c0 c3 0f 1f 00 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 89h
> > 
> > Can anyone help here?
> > 
> > Is there any other info I can provide, or other steps I can do to help
> > diagnose this?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> 
> It's probably https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/61. If you know how 
> you can take a stack trace to be sure. The work-around is to set 
> GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus in the environment.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

John, thanks for the pointer! problem now solved.

from that page, it looks like it is not a new problem, wondefr if the GTK 
maintainers will ever fix it.

Fred
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