Creating a new file also hangs Gnucash. Applying the patch from http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/14761?format=diff to the previous version removed the bug for me.
-- Gnucash crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/55462 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
