gnucash crashes during startup

[Jochen]

I've installed gnucash 2.6.4-1 from GetDeb.net. It seems to start up fine first, displaying a note of the day and a startup window. However it then crashes before finishing the startup.

I had installed the standard ubuntu version of gnucash (2.6.1) before, but had purged it before insatlling 2.6.4 from GetDeb.net, using sudo apt-get purge gnucash; sudo apt-get autoremove (as described on http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu).

Here's some ouput that's hopefully useful.

$ uname -a
Linux Herbert 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg-query -l gnucash
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==========================-==================-==================-==========================================================
ii gnucash 1:2.6.4-1~getdeb1 amd64 personal and small-business financial-accounting software

$ gnucash
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 157: 16 [catch #t #<catch-closure 1f7a3c0> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 15 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1f7a3c0>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
3513: 14 [process-use-modules (((gnucash price-quotes)))]
 627: 13 [map #<procedure 1f1ac60 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> ((#))]
3514: 12 [#<procedure 1f1ac60 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> (#)]
2783: 11 [resolve-interface (gnucash price-quotes) #:select ...]
2708: 10 [#<procedure 1f0d580 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2696:4 (name #:optional autoload version #:key ensure)> # ...]
2981: 9 [try-module-autoload (gnucash price-quotes) #f]
2320: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 338a9c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2982:17 ()>]
3001: 7 [#<procedure 338a9c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2982:17 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 6 [primitive-load-path "gnucash/price-quotes" ...]
In gnucash/price-quotes.scm:
  41: 5 [#<procedure 2525600 ()>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
3513: 4 [process-use-modules (((www main)))]
 627: 3 [map #<procedure 1f1ac60 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> ((#))]
3514: 2 [#<procedure 1f1ac60 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3513:25 (mif-args)> ((www main))]
2786: 1 [resolve-interface (www main) #:select ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 0 [scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("no code for module" (www main)) #f]

ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
ERROR: no code for module (www main)

[henczati (henczati)]

I just installed gnucash 2.6.4-1~getdeb1 on Lubuntu 14.04 Trusty (with it being the first version installed on this OS), and it seems to work fine for me.

Hope that this somewhat helps.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

It turns out this is due to a problem with Guile 2.0, and only affects folks upgrading from one version using Guile 2.0 to another version using Guile 2.0.

As seen in Debian Bug 764821 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764821 the workaround is to delete the guile cache directory.

rm -R ~/.cache/guile/ccache/

The fix will be included in GnuCash 2.6.5

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

Ok, will close the bug when 2.6.5 is published.