Date: 16 Jul 2003 22:45:51 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: Gnucash-User <gnucash-user@lists.gnucash.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: gnucash-1.8.4: 2 fatals, 1 log failure so far (FreeBSD-5.1-CURRENT) Message-ID: <86lluxna5c.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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Installed GnuCash and GnuCash-docs from ports on FreeBSD-5.1:
FreeBSD PECTOPAH.shenton.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Tue Jul 1 19:48:37 EDT 2003 chris@PECTOPAH.shenton.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PECTOPAH i386
Ports is cvsupped nightly and I just did a portupgrade -R gnucash'*'
to rebuild all recursive dependencies. Here's what the system thinks
it has:
chris@PECTOPAH<102> pkg_info -c gnucash'*'
Information for gnucash-1.8.4:
Comment:
Quicken-like money and finance manager
Information for gnucash-docs-1.8.1:
Comment:
Documentation for gnucash
I'm a gnucash newbie (used it a bit a year back but haven't since) but
a longtime FreeBSD and UNIX guy; I plead ignorance to all things Gnome :-(.
Here are some major problems I've just noticed trying to use it.
First, I removed old cruft from my long-ago runs so I can work the
druid (which didn't exist back then).
0. First it takes over a minute to startup, with top showing guile
consuming lots of CPU and memory? This on a 1.8GHz box with 700MB
RAM, tho I am using it across the LAN with X11.
1. I follow the pop-up tip and click Help to check the Tutorial.
Screen gets blown away, program dies. The terminal I started from
says:
Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
Abort
2. I run gnucash again and do NOT ask for help. I start creating some
simple accounts and populating from my checkbook. Periodically,
the xterm I started it from complains (non-fatally):
Error: xaccOpenLog(): cannot open journal
13 Permission denied
It does NOT tell me what file it's trying to open so I can't check
permissions and such. I'm running it from my homedir so don't
expect there should be a problem.
I cross my fingers and do a SaveAs; it does save the file.
3. Now I've forgotten what button I clicked but I think it was a Print
(very sorry here, lost track). Again the program died and
disappeared, again reporting on the xterm:
Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
Abort
Any clues what might be causing this? How I could track down what
it's trying to do that fail so quickly?
I'm trying a "truss gnucash" right now -- the splash screen hasn't
come up yet -- and most of the lines I see are reporting "ERR#2 'No
such file or directory'", like:
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("/usr/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
open("libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.so",4) ERR#2 'No such file or directory'
access("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so",4) = 0 (0x0)
Let me know what I should be looking for.
I like the functionality I see from gnucash a lot but with the level
of instability I see I'm very worried about getting dependent on it.
I don't want to lose a whole bunch of data-entry time, or worse.
Thanks for all your help.
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