Date: 16 Jul 2003 23:43:32 -0400 From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnucash-1.8.4: 2 fatals, 1 log failure so far (FreeBSD-5.1-CURRENT) Message-ID: <sjmptk9hl7f.fsf@kikki.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <86lluxna5c.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <86lluxna5c.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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This sounds like a Libc problem..
-derek
Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:
> 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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