From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 20:43:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F1E37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu (FORT-POINT-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A50F443F85 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:43:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from warlord@MIT.EDU) Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72])h6H3hXEI010510; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:43:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from manawatu-mail-centre.mit.edu (MANAWATU-MAIL-CENTRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.71])h6H3hXhk008232; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:43:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kikki.mit.edu (KIKKI.MIT.EDU [18.18.1.142]) ) h6H3hWFJ023343; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from warlord@localhost) by kikki.mit.edu (8.12.9) id h6H3hWVu009165; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:43:32 -0400 (EDT) To: Chris Shenton References: <86lluxna5c.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> From: Derek Atkins Date: 16 Jul 2003 23:43:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86lluxna5c.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> Message-ID: Lines: 101 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Gnucash-User cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnucash-1.8.4: 2 fatals, 1 log failure so far (FreeBSD-5.1-CURRENT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:43:35 -0000 This sounds like a Libc problem.. -derek Chris Shenton writes: > Installed GnuCash and GnuCash-docs from ports on FreeBSD-5.1: > > FreeBSD PECTOPAH.shenton.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Tue Jul 1 19:48:37 EDT 2003 chris@PECTOPAH.shenton.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PECTOPAH i386 > > Ports is cvsupped nightly and I just did a portupgrade -R gnucash'*' > to rebuild all recursive dependencies. Here's what the system thinks > it has: > > chris@PECTOPAH<102> pkg_info -c gnucash'*' > Information for gnucash-1.8.4: > Comment: > Quicken-like money and finance manager > > Information for gnucash-docs-1.8.1: > Comment: > Documentation for gnucash > > > I'm a gnucash newbie (used it a bit a year back but haven't since) but > a longtime FreeBSD and UNIX guy; I plead ignorance to all things Gnome :-(. > > Here are some major problems I've just noticed trying to use it. > First, I removed old cruft from my long-ago runs so I can work the > druid (which didn't exist back then). > > 0. First it takes over a minute to startup, with top showing guile > consuming lots of CPU and memory? This on a 1.8GHz box with 700MB > RAM, tho I am using it across the LAN with X11. > > 1. I follow the pop-up tip and click Help to check the Tutorial. > Screen gets blown away, program dies. The terminal I started from > says: > > Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0) > Abort > > 2. I run gnucash again and do NOT ask for help. I start creating some > simple accounts and populating from my checkbook. Periodically, > the xterm I started it from complains (non-fatally): > > Error: xaccOpenLog(): cannot open journal > 13 Permission denied > > It does NOT tell me what file it's trying to open so I can't check > permissions and such. I'm running it from my homedir so don't > expect there should be a problem. > > I cross my fingers and do a SaveAs; it does save the file. > > 3. Now I've forgotten what button I clicked but I think it was a Print > (very sorry here, lost track). Again the program died and > disappeared, again reporting on the xterm: > > Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0) > Abort > > > Any clues what might be causing this? How I could track down what > it's trying to do that fail so quickly? > > I'm trying a "truss gnucash" right now -- the splash screen hasn't > come up yet -- and most of the lines I see are reporting "ERR#2 'No > such file or directory'", like: > > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/local/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("/usr/lib/libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > open("libXpm.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > access("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libXpm.so",4) ERR#2 'No such file or directory' > access("/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so",4) = 0 (0x0) > > Let me know what I should be looking for. > > I like the functionality I see from gnucash a lot but with the level > of instability I see I'm very worried about getting dependent on it. > I don't want to lose a whole bunch of data-entry time, or worse. > > Thanks for all your help. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@lists.gnucash.org > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available