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 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Helloeveryone, > > > > ............................................................................... > > > > BottomLine Up Front (BLUF): > > > > > Thesegmentation fault error I experienced in gnucash seems to be causedby the > system locale being set to “C.UTF-8.” > > > > > WhenI changed the locale from “C.UTF-8” to “en_US.UTF-8” the“Mortgage & Loan > Repayment” GUI worked as expected. > > > > > Hence,“maybe” no changes to the source code are needed. > > > > > Ican set the locale to “en_US.UTF-8” when using gnucash. > > > > ............................................................................... > > > > Errorreproduced with the following versions of GnuCash used on Linux Mint22.1 > with Cinnamon desktop and locale set to “C.UTF-8”: > > > > > gnucashversion 5.5 > > gnucashversion 5.16 > > AppImagebuild of gnucash version 5.16 > > Flatpak build of gnucash version 5.16 > > > > ............................................................................... > > > > Iexecuted gnucash from the command line with locale set to“en_US.UTF-8” via: > > > > > LANG=“en_US.UTF-8”gnucash > > > > > andthe “Mortgage & Loan Repayment” GUI worked as expected. > > > > > Hence,I can change the desktop “Exec” line (as a work around fix forthis > issue): > > > > > from“gnucash %f” to “env LANG=“en_US.UTF-8” gnucash %f” > > > > ............................................................................... > > > 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. > > > > Note:On Linux, gnucash can be started with locale set to “C.UTF-8” viathe > command line with: > > LANG=“C.UTF-8”gnucash > > > > ............................................................................... > > > > Ifyou can, please confirm the occurrence of this error when the localeis set > to “C.UTF‑8” > > > > > Ihope this information is helpful. > > > > > Respectfully, > > > > > guardian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
