I'd report it against gtk and I'd mention it in our release notes. Phil
________________________________ From: Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> To: John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 11:38:10 AM Subject: Re: r21892 - gnucash/tags - Tagging the 2.4.10 release Op zaterdag 28 januari 2012 08:46:45 schreef John Ralls: > > OK, if it's crashing for you on XP, maybe it will for me too. I'll have a > look in a bit. > > Regards, > John Ralls I finally got some more information on this problem. I found a relevant gnucash.trace. I don't know why I didn't find this before, but no matter. It seems gtk 2.24.8 doesn't like a 16-bit display depth: WARN <Gdk> gdk_win32_pixmap_new: depth = 16 not supported This is then followed by a number of other gdk errors like CRIT <Gdk> gdk_gc_new_with_values: assertion `drawable != NULL' failed CRIT <Gdk> gdk_gc_set_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed (repeat x times) My Windows XP is installed in a xen VM, to which I normally connect via RDP, currently at 16-bit. I haven't found a way yet to set the bit depth to 24 via RDP. Just to continue with the test, I have connected to the VM via the xen console and set the depth to 24-bit there. In this configuration GnuCash starts fine. The trade-offs are that my screen is now only 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024, and the xen console is unworkably slow. I also used a VNC connection via TightVNC. This can be configured to use 24-bit at 1024x768 as well, but there I get horrible visual artifacts caused by the mouse movement. So I think we have found the cause and as far as I'm concerned this shouldn't be blocking the 2.4.10 release anymore. I'm not sure if it's worth reporting a bug against gtk for this. It sure complicates my gnucash on Windows development work right now. But perhaps I can get rdp to work in 24-bit. Should we mention it in the our release notes that from now on GnuCash on Windows requires at least a monitor setting of 24-bit depth ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
