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Bug 708526 - GnuCash Crashes when opening About page
GnuCash Crashes when opening About page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.5.x
Other Mac OS
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnucash-general-maint
gnucash-general-maint
: 704723 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-09-21 12:22 UTC by Chris
Modified: 2018-06-29 23:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
User diagnostic report from Mac Console (52.09 KB, text/plain)
2013-09-21 12:22 UTC, Chris 		Details

Description Chris 2013-09-21 12:22:17 UTC 
Created attachment 255474 [details]
User diagnostic report from Mac Console

On Mac OS 10.8.5, using GNUCash 2.5.5

Opening the About page (Gnucash->About) crashes the application

Console report is attached.
Comment 1 John Ralls 2013-09-22 01:15:35 UTC 
OK, the immediate problem is that the AUTHORS, DOCUMENTERS, and LICENSE file are missing from the bundle. I've resolved that in git.

But the crash is caused by gnc_filepath_locate_file() calling g_error() if it can't find a file, and that seems a bit extreme to me. G_error() should be used only if the failure is so severe that the program can't safely continue to function.
Comment 2 Greg P 2013-10-24 02:25:43 UTC 
*** Bug 704723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 John Ralls 2013-12-05 22:06:43 UTC 
Fixed in r23477.
Comment 4 John Ralls 2018-06-29 23:19:23 UTC 
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708526. Please update any external references or bookmarks.