I just installed 12.1 and am having issues with Gnucash. When I start it I get the splash screen, tips screen and then it stops. When I try to start it from the command line this is what I get:
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.
WARNING: no socket to connect to
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/core-utils.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/core-utils.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: no code for module (sw_core_utils)
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnc-module.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnc-module.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: no code for module (sw_gnc_module)
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure debug-options-interface: Unknown option name: maxdepth
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
170: 12 [catch #t #<catch-closure 847cc00> …]
In unknown file:
?: 11 [catch-closure]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2497: 10 #<procedure 843f1a0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2485:4 (name #:optional autoload version #:key ensure)> # …]
2763: 9 [try-module-autoload (gnucash main) #f]
2103: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 85419c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2764:17 ()>]
2774: 7 #<procedure 85419c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2764:17 ()>]
In unknown file:
?: 6 [primitive-load-path “gnucash/main” #f]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
458: 5 #<procedure 83d56c0 at ice-9/eval.scm:452:4 (exp)> #]
In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
1024: 4 [chi-top-sequence ((debug-set! maxdepth 100000)) () …]
922: 3 [scan ((debug-set! maxdepth 100000)) () …]
1015: 2 [scan ((#(syntax-object debug-options # …) (# # #))) () …]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2854: 1 [debug-options (show-file-name #t stack …)]
In unknown file:
?: 0 [debug-options-interface (show-file-name #t stack …)]
ERROR: In procedure debug-options-interface:
ERROR: In procedure debug-options-interface: Unknown option name: maxdepth
Unfortunately, it seems, this package still has some lacking features.
The fact that a bunch of it is written in guile doesn’t make it easier
to debug. The more exotic the languages, the less people you can find to
debug the stuff
Use Yast to delete Guile and Gnucash. In the process delete slib when it asks.
Goto software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 12.1. Select the 11.4 version in the tab below the search box.
Install in order
guile-1.8.7-8.2.x86_64.rpm from openSUSE:11.4/standard
gnucash-2.4.0-5.3.x86_64.rpm from openSUSE:11.4/standard
gnucash-2.4.7-25.2.x86_64.rpm from GNOME:Apps/openSUSE_11.4+GNOME_STABLE_3.2
This obviously solves some weird dependency bug. You need first to disable the 12.1 CD repository because otherwise it reloads the wrong version of Guile. I don’t know if step 2 is necessary, but it works! gnucash 2.7 and 2.8 from the 12.1 branch don’t work, you have to use the version from 11.4.
I have ended up with versions
Guile 1.8.7-8.2
libGuile 2.0.2-7.1.2
Gnucash 2.4.7-25.2
Gnucash docs 2.4.1-4.1.1
slib 3b3-5.1.1
with which I can open accounts and reports.
Now I only need to fix the disaster that kmail2 has made in conversion …
Edit: The advantage of this over methods in other posts is that it only uses standard repos, not personal ones by who knows whom.
These solutions are unacceptable. I am using this for a production environment. I will wait for the team to produce
and push a patch to solve this problem. I am thinking that it should be done soon since everyone knows about this, including
the repository teams…I am NOT going to break my repositories and get a “mixed” system which always causes other
problems. I hate to have to use gnucash on a Windows machine…LOL…I DO have one laying around for testing purposes…but
that would kind of be like blasphemy…LOL!
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:36:07 +0000, Bobmeister wrote:
> These solutions are unacceptable. I am using this for a production
> environment. I will wait for the team to produce and push a patch to
> solve this problem. I am thinking that it should be done soon since
> everyone knows about this, including the repository teams…I am NOT
> going to break my repositories and get a “mixed” system which always
> causes other problems. I hate to have to use gnucash on a Windows
> machine…LOL…I DO have one laying around for testing purposes…but
> that would kind of be like blasphemy…LOL!
You always have the option of going back to 11.4 or running it in a
virtual machine. Pan is similarly broken in 12.1, so I run it remotely
from a VM that’s installed with 11.4. X forwarding puts it on my local
desktop so I don’t have to remote control another system.
So, what can I do as a member of the community to help out with this issue? I am not an expert in building packages but I can learn. This is one of those programs that I NEED to function in my day to day life and would like to do something about it to better everyone.
>
> I was able to install the 11.4 version successfully. I made no special
> effort other than install:
> gnucash-2.4.0-5.3.x86_64
> guile-1.8.7-8.2.x86_64
>
> It is seeming working just fine.
>
I emailed dimstar not quite a week ago with a fix for the reports.
I will reproduce that email content here:
I found that by commenting out (with ; line 292 of
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/html-document.scm that I was able to get a few
reports working. I did not encounter any reports that did not work,
but I didn’t perform an exhaustive check, either.
Here is the line (commented out).
;; (if attr (hash-fold add-attribute #f attr))
Not sure when a patch will come out, but this works for now.
line 292 of