Julie, For searching for past mailing list threads the following link may be useful https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ .
On Sun, 2026-10-11 at 17:23 -0700, Julie G wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > For a few days now I've been trying to figure out what is going on > with my > linux mint 22.2 zara cinnamon... when I run a report in gnucash it > crashes > and I have to REISUB. > > I am reminded that upon installation early in this year, i had this > same > situation. My recollection is that one of you nice peeps gave me > some > quick code to do something with (??????) regarding my NVIDIA, which > worked > like a charm. > > I had high aspriations at that time, and remember trying to keep > immaculate > notes on what was each problem/issue and what I did to fix it. I > thought I > made a folder for the emails I received. Thinking I was so clever, I > looked for that email (although i haven't changed anything since I > originally made the fix). I'm not shocked that I can find neither a > reference a .doc nor the email. However, I am plenty chagrinned. > Looking > on the internet, I find at bugs.gnucash.org 798486/799095 a > description of > the issue > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=799095 > but typing "WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 flatpak run > org.gnucash.GnuCash" into terminal only seems to make gnucash try > unsuccessfully to open my file in terminal each time? > > Reading down in the bug report, Chris says he upgraded his driver to > Nvidia-driver-535 (version 535.113.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 I would love > to > update my driver (wouldn't I?) but I ask the computer to and it says > no > udates are needed. I don't know how to do this. > > Next, in the bug report, what does all this mean: > > I am hit with the same bug (NVIDIA GT 1030). The error messages on > the > console suggest, that there exists a problem with VA-API. Indeed, > vainfo casts an unknown libva error, as the propietary NVIDIA drivers > do not support VA-API. Nouveau on the other hand do, so I switched to > the Nouveau driver, and pretty sure the reports reappeared. > > So, to summarize: > Webkit, which is used to render the reports, decided lately they > require the VA-API, and only this. VDPAU, which is supported by the > NVIDIA drivers, is not even tried. > > So please: disable accereration in Webkit (I believe this is > webkit_settings_set_enable_webgl()), or switch to another renderer > that supports VDPAU too. > > The WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1 disables the composting mode > completely and so avoids VA-API also. > > Basically, I'm looking for commands I can type into terminal (or???) > in the > hope that one fixes my issue. I'm not sure this is even the right > approach... > > As I read on, I don't know if I should try uninstalling and > reinstalling another version of gnucash? > Get a different video card? I too rely on gnucash for tracking my > finances, and soon > I will need to run some reports so I'd love to figure out what to do. > In my world, it is a gnucash issue because that is the program i am > using and that > is crashing. :-( so I keep posting here. Plus, it is a gnucash > person who > resolved it for me in the past. If Wm, David or Patrick looked back > in their > email from january, february, march or april to see if they sent > [email protected] > any emails, it might be in there. Sadly, I have looked back in my > gmail and > it has no record of any meaningful communications with any of these > guys prior to > the last week :-( > > Julie > _______________________________________________ > 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. -- David Cousens _______________________________________________ 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.
