GnuCash crashes on creating an online banking user

[JT Gerber]

Linux Mint 16 "petra" Cinnamon 64-bit.

Attempting to create an online banking user causes GnuCash to crash.

This can be duplicated always.

Steps to duplicate:
1) Install package "gnucash" and its depedencies.
2) Run GnuCash. The bug occurs whether you use a pre-existing data file or create a new one. If you don't have an existing data file, choose to "Create a new set of accounts" and choose Forward to progress through the wizard, accepting all defaults and then Apply. When prompted, enter a filename to save the data file, e.g. "test".
3) In the main window, choose Tools > Online Banking Setup...
4) In the wizard, click Forward and then click "Start AqBanking Wizard".
5) On the AqBanking Setup window click "Create User". Gnucash will crash. If launched from a terminal, it will produce this output:
gnucash: list1.c:59: GWEN_List1_GetCount: Assertion `l' failed.
Aborted

In researching this problem I came across this Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725022. The package maintainer asked the reporter to install gnucash-dbg and libaqbanking34-dbg to get a gdb backtrace. The reporter said that simply installing those packages resolves the crash, and it does solve it for me too. It turns out that installing package libaqbanking34-dbg causes the package "aqbanking-tools" to be installed and THAT resolves the issue.

Therefore I believe that the solution of this bug should be to set package aqbanking-tools to be a dependency of package gnucash, so that it will be installed along with the main gnucash program. Otherwise the GnuCash installation is broken.

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

Is it worth marking this bug as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/1185399?
It would have to be fixed upstream anyway, as it comes from Ubuntu's repos

[JT Gerber (joel)]

This bug does not affect Debian 7.4/Wheezy. I tried it in VirtualBox. When you install the "gnucash" package, it installs all of the same dependencies (and more) as the "aqbanking-tools" package. So the bug does not occur in Debian.

[JT Gerber (joel)]

This bug is still present in Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" Cinnamon.

Apparently the big was fixed upstream to mark libaqbanking34-plugins as a dependency of gnucash. However it seems that this didn't make it into the Linux Mint 17 release.

So the same fix still works: just install package libaqbanking34-plugins (or install aqbanking-tools as I mentioned in the OP; this works since it in turn has libaqbanking34-plugins as a dependency).