Gnucash problem after today's upgrade [solved]

bgc1954 · 2008-03-28 12:45:12

After I upgraded today I found that gnucash didn't work. It started up but would not load my saved file--not very helpful. I checked the forums and only noticed a post about gnucash problem in Dec., last year, so I followed what skotttish suggested then and rebuilt gnucash-2.2.4 against the updated libraries and it works now.

BTW, this is on an x86_64 machine.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-04-09 18:45:50)

byronc · 2008-03-28 16:43:01

Bug filed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9991

bgc1954 · 2008-03-28 17:06:15

Thanks byronc

I wasn't sure if this was a common problem or not. I was just checking if anyone else had the problem before I filed a bug report.

amavis442 · 2008-03-28 17:33:21

I have the same problem only when i compile it via abs it stops with an error

libgncmod-generic-import.so: undifned symbol g_assertion_message_expr

bgc1954 · 2008-03-28 18:12:33

amavis442 wrote:
I have the same problem only when i compile it via abs it stops with an error
libgncmod-generic-import.so: undifned symbol g_assertion_message_expr

Actually, I didn't use abs. Just downloaded the tarball gnucash-2.2.4 from sourceforge.net and compiled with no problems on a x86_64.

phrakture · 2008-03-28 19:38:50

Rebuilding gnucash right now to be more in line with the gnome packaging guidelines. Let me know if -2 works when it hits your mirror

byronc · 2008-03-29 01:35:55

2.2.4-2 runs, but it depends on gtkhtml-3.18 which is only available in testing. gtkhtml-3.18 pulled in glib-2.16 so the undefined symbol errors are gone.

bgc1954 · 2008-03-29 17:10:48

Yeah...I tried to pacman -Sy gnucash on my x86_64 and it complains about gtkhtml, which apparently is in testing and I'm not going to bother enabling testing for one package, unless it's absolutely necessary. I can wait and use my compiled gnucash for now.

phrakture · 2008-03-31 17:19:53

That's an oops on my part. It should have gone to testing.

ravisghosh · 2008-04-02 12:10:03

phrakture wrote:

That's an oops on my part. It should have gone to testing.

I would be a great favor if you can migrate the current gnucash to testing and put the old version back in extra. In that way, we'll get a functional gnucash.

Also, I tried to install gtkhtml from testing, but it wants to bring along 21 mb of additional packages. So, I dropped the idea since if I disable testing again, then it will be difficult to figure out which package breaks and what to do to fix that.

phrakture · 2008-04-02 21:30:03

ravisghosh wrote:

phrakture wrote:
That's an oops on my part. It should have gone to testing.
I would be a great favor if you can migrate the current gnucash to testing and put the old version back in extra. In that way, we'll get a functional gnucash.
Also, I tried to install gtkhtml from testing, but it wants to bring along 21 mb of additional packages. So, I dropped the idea since if I disable testing again, then it will be difficult to figure out which package breaks and what to do to fix that.

Actually, I think it works fine with the gtkhtml from extra, so I will just rebuild with that as the dep.

d_dave · 2008-04-02 23:59:24

I had similar problems - to resolve and finally get gnucash to work again I had to;

cpan -r -> the first complaints were from perl modules that would not load. Webmin was also broken as NET::SSLeay was broken.

Roll back to gnucash 2.2.3.

It would at least start but fail trying to load the file. The message it would leave was it could not find "libltdl.so.3" so I made a link to the libltdl.so.7.0.1. This also brought back gnome "games."

This was a very rough update.

brebs · 2008-04-03 00:24:54

d_dave wrote:

so I made a link

Why? You're supposed to recompile the packages having an invalid link, not apply a fundamentally flawed band-aid

Who is it that keeps recommending that a symlink is the answer?

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ravisghosh · 2008-04-03 01:53:55

Actually, I think it works fine with the gtkhtml from extra, so I will just rebuild with that as the dep.

I'm eagerly waiting for that fix.

d_dave · 2008-04-03 17:40:04

Sorry brebs, I don't have the smarts to recompile the packages, I just want gnucash to work, hoping that by pointing out the ouey that someone else that has those smarts can fix - maybe by pointing out my findings it will help them find the solution. Gnucash won't recompile from source on my system anymore - any version. I know I am limping along, but I have always relied on the kindness of strangers....

brebs · 2008-04-03 18:43:25

Run abs, then gnucash 2.2.4-2 in /var/abs/extra/office/gnucash compiles for me (although I do have some packages from Testing installed).

gnucash 2.2.4-2 does however need:

rm $startdir/pkg/usr/share/info/dir

Stefan Husmann · 2008-04-03 21:00:25

brebs wrote:

d_dave wrote:
so I made a link
Why? You're supposed to recompile the packages having an invalid link, not apply a fundamentally flawed band-aid
Who is it that keeps recommending that a symlink is the answer?

This time it was not me!;)

Last edited by Stefan Husmann (2008-04-03 21:00:53)

ravisghosh · 2008-04-08 18:12:45

The latest updated fixed the issue.

Last edited by ravisghosh (2008-04-08 22:41:10)

bgc1954 · 2008-04-09 18:46:50

Yup, it's working fine in x86_64 now.

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