Thank you, everyone. I think I will wait for the next version to come out next month and try it out then. If I am going to install it by hand, I might as well install the latest.
-- Brian M. Sutin gnuca...@skewray.com On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, at 3:32 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > Op zaterdag 24 augustus 2019 20:17:50 CEST schreef gnuca...@skewray.com: > > A year or two ago I was running Ubuntu 16.10. When I upgraded to the next > > Ubuntu version, Gnucash did some moving and reformatting of my config files. > > When I ran Gnucash, it would hang up inside any register and crash. I > > 'solved' the problem by running 2.6.12 in Virtualbox on Ubuntu 16.04, which > > is what I've been doing ever since. Ubuntu has upgraded a few times, and > > the issue persists. The current version that still doesn't work is Gnucash > > 3.4. > > > > Is this a known issue? Is ther a previous thread in this list that addresses > > this? If not, how would I go about starting to debug the issue? > > > > Places where config files seem to be: > > .config/gnucash > > .gconf/apps/gnucash > > .gnucash/books/Gnucash > > .local/share/gnucash/books > > I don't know which of these is from before the conversion and which are new. > > The problem might also be in a library, I guess. > > A few more bits that were omitted or glossed over in the other responses: > > .gconf/apps/gnucash predates even gnucash 2.6. If you have no intention to > rerun gnucash 2.4, you can safely remove this. > Of the others > .gnucash/ is the config directory used by gnucash2.6 > .config/gnucash and .local/share/gnucash are used by gnucash 3.x > > If you have been running gnucash in a VM, and now run gnucash on your main > system, obviously it won't find the config data stored in your VM. If you > would like gnucash to redo the config data conversion for you, you'll have to > 1. copy everything from .gnucash/ in your VM to .gnucash/ on your main system > 2. delete .local/share/gnucash and .config/gnucash from your main system > 3. start gnucash > > As others have noted, if that still crashes, we're need more details to > determine the root cause. A trace file would be useful [1] or if you know how > to use the gdb debugger tool, a backtrace usually holds more details still. > > Regards, > > Geert > > [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile > > > _______________________________________________ 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.