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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.