gnucash 3.3 crashes upon keypress in transaction

[Johannes Klug]

In Kubuntu 18.10, Gnucash 3.3 crashes as soon as I type a character into any field in a transaction.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnucash 1:3.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Mon Nov 12 23:18:34 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-06 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2)
SourcePackage: gnucash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-06 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2)
Package: gnucash 1:3.3-2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
Tags: cosmic
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Johannes Klug (jklug)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[tskariah (t-skariah)]

I have the same issue (crashes as soon as I press any key on the keyboard. I could use the mouse without any issue) ever since I switched to GnuCash 3.4 (from v2.6.19)

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
GnuCash 3.4
Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30)
gnucash/bionic,now 1:3.4-0+bionic~ppa1 amd64

Tried running it with "gnucash --debug --extra" from command line. But did not find anything interesting in /tmp/gnucash.trace

Found the following in the /var/log/syslog

kernel: [ 4234.999836] gnucash[9254]: segfault at f0 ip 00007fd19c36d1e2 sp 00007ffcad896178 error 4 in libgdk-3.so.0.2200.30[7fd19c326000+eb000]
dbus-daemon[9314]: [session uid=0 pid=9312] AppArmor D-Bus mediation is enabled
dbus-daemon[9314]: [session uid=0 pid=9312] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.0' (uid=0 pid=9307 comm="gnucash " label="unconfined")
dbus-daemon[9314]: [session uid=0 pid=9312] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'

[tskariah (t-skariah)]

If I "sudo gnucash" then it runs fine without crashing.

[Norwin Hanghuhn (hanghuhn)]

I'm too affected by this bug and a backtrace shows the crash occurs near im-xim.so, which is the X input method. After clearing the environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE (which was set to xim) the crash disappears, although now my keyboard is badly broken since I heavily rely on XCompose to input all sorts of letters.

[Christian Walter (walter-chr-r)]

I experience the same problem in Linux Mint with gnuash version 3.8

Is there a solution (other than running gnucash as root)?

[slmpika (slmpika)]

This crash just started happening to me in the past week. Ubuntu 18.04 with gnucash 3.8. Running as root solves the problem for me as well.