Yes, that was the issue (two versions of boot-9.scm). Having checked dependencies and so on, including doing a dry run remove to check it wasn't going to remove anything critical, I uninstalled guile-2.0-libs and now it runs ok.
So is this a packaging bug? Colin On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 16:39, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Further to this I see I have two files ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/boot-9.scm > /usr/share/guile/2.0/ice-9/boot-9.scm > Could it be picking up the wrong one, or is that a red herring? > > Colin > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:57, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10. This upgraded GC from 2.6.19 (at >> least I think it was 19) to 3.3 and now GC crashes immediately on startup. >> Starting in a terminal gives result below. There is nothing in the trace >> file. On another machine with a fresh install of 18.10 GC 3.3 runs fine so >> I guess it is to with updated file locations or something. >> >> Colin >> >> $ gnucash >> Backtrace: >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 2994:20 19 (_) >> 2312:4 18 (save-module-excursion _) >> 3014:26 17 (_) >> In unknown file: >> 16 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/utilities" #<procedure 55…>) >> In utilities.scm: >> 28:0 15 (_) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 3377:20 14 (process-use-modules _) >> 222:17 13 (map1 (((gnucash core-utils)))) >> 3378:31 12 (_ ((gnucash core-utils))) >> 2800:17 11 (resolve-interface (gnucash core-utils) #:select _ # _ # …) >> In ice-9/threads.scm: >> 390:8 10 (_ _) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 2726:13 9 (_) >> In ice-9/threads.scm: >> 390:8 8 (_ _) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 2994:20 7 (_) >> 2312:4 6 (save-module-excursion _) >> 3014:26 5 (_) >> In unknown file: >> 4 (primitive-load-path "gnucash/core-utils" #<procedure 5…>) >> In core-utils.scm: >> 40:0 3 (_) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 2071:24 2 (call-with-deferred-observers #<procedure 7f649fe8c2b8 …>) >> 260:13 1 (for-each #<procedure 55f6e50dd4e0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm…> …) >> In unknown file: >> 0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("Undefined variab…" …) …) >> >> ERROR: In procedure scm-error: >> Undefined variable: gnc-build-userdata-path >> >> _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.