Taxbird useless as it fails to send data: "ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 16: 50"

[JanG]

Binary package hint: taxbird

Clicking on "Send data" does nothing and returns the following error:
** (taxbird:13918): CRITICAL **: global error handler called, damn.

No backtrace available.
ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 16: 50

There is a very simple fix available at the original debian package bug report ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545043 ), it just needs to get applied.

This should be considered critical as the whole application is useless without this function.

$ apt-cache policy taxbird
taxbird:
  Installiert: 0.12-2
  Kandidat: 0.12-2
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.12-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 9 09:12:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: taxbird 0.12-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.41-generic
SourcePackage: taxbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686

[c_ellesley (archelegraph)]

I experience the issue too :

** (taxbird:2518): CRITICAL **: global error handler called, damn.

No backtrace available.
ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 16: 50

as mentioned above, this error is "grave", as taxbird is useless with this error

As a workaround I edited
         /usr/share/taxbird/guile/autoload/22-ustva-2009-stub.scm
line 103 from
  "ustva-2009, $Id$"
to
  "ustva-2009, $Id: 98e44479b75616e6db2f3ba358975642dd44cde8 $"

[JanG (jan-ge)]

Fixed in Lucid