This crash just started happening to me in the past week. Ubuntu 18.04
with gnucash 3.8. Running as root solves the problem for me as well.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1802994
Public bug reported:
The version of libevent included with precise (2.0.16-stable-1) will
cause a consistent crash with Transmission. This crash does not occur
with newer versions of libevent (fixed in 2.0.18). libevent version
2.0.18-stable-1 or newer should be included in Ubuntu to correct this
