(Adjusting version, targeting, raising sev (crasher=critical).)

I cannot reproduce.  What string value are you entering for the new name?

For me this happens with every string, even a single 'K' does this.  I tried also to create a new file for this.

Its 1.9.8 -r 14384.  The fedora core 5 build.

What else can I try for you to help?

Martin

I cannot reproduce this here.   I'm using r14434 on FC5, so I'm afraid I don't know what you're seeing.

I run:

 gnucash --nofile
 File -> Properties
 Enter [Kla] into the name
 Click OK

And nothing happens.  We really need a way to reproduce this ourselves so we know it's not your environment (i.e., you're not picking up some gnucash-1.8 files).

Other than gnucash-1.9, did you hand-install anything that didn't come from Fedora as an RPM?

I did the same as you wrote:

LC_ALL=C gnucash --nofile
File -> Properties
Enter [ddd] into the Company Name
Click OK

quit message:
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
   ?:  0* [apply-cb]
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnome-utils.scm:
  29:  1* [gnc:options-scm->kvp #<procedure dispatch #> # # ...]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
1471:  2  [scm->kvp #<gw:wcp <gnc:kvp-frame*> 0x9ccc178> ("options")]
In unknown file:
    ...
   ?:  3  [hash-for-each #<procedure #f (section hash)> #(() () (#) () ...)]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/hashtab.scm:
 120:  4  (do ((i (+ -1 #) (+ -1 i))) ((negative? i)) ...)
 122:  5* [alist-for-each #<procedure #f (section hash)> (("Business" . #))]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/alist.scm:
 117:  6  [for-each #<procedure #f (pair)> (("Business" . #(# # # ...)))]
In unknown file:
   ?:  7* [#<procedure #f (pair)> ("Business" . #((#) (#) (#) ...))]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/alist.scm:
 117:  8* [#<procedure #f (section hash)> "Business" #((#) (#) (#) () ...)]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
1299:  9  [section-for-each #((#) (#) (#) () ...) #<procedure #f (option)>]
In unknown file:
    ...
   ?: 10  [hash-for-each #<procedure #f (name option)> #((#) (#) (#) () ...)]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/hashtab.scm:
 120: 11  (do ((i (+ -1 #) (+ -1 i))) ((negative? i)) ...)
 122: 12* [alist-for-each #<procedure #f (name option)> (("Company Name" . #))]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/alist.scm:
 117: 13  [for-each #<procedure #f (pair)> (("Company Name" . #))]
In unknown file:
   ?: 14* [#<procedure #f (pair)> ("Company Name" . #)]
In /usr/share/guile/site/slib/alist.scm:
 117: 15* [#<procedure #f #> "Company Name" #]
In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:
1295: 16  [#<procedure #f (option)> #("Business" "Company Name" "a" ...)]
    ...
 199: 17  [gnc:kvp-frame-set-slot-path # {"ddd"} #]

/usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:199:20: In procedure exact? in expression (gnc:kvp-frame-set-slot-path f value ...):
/usr/share/gnucash/scm/options.scm:199:20: Wrong type argument in position 1: "ddd"

To your question about haveing compiled anything from myself?  I comiled some things, but everything with rpmbuild, so you can find my own builds at 
http://kleinerdrache.org/repos/fc5/repodata/  (Ok, all ruby-gnome related things are only stored here.)

The rest comes out from the fedora (but also development and extras-development things), livna, rpmforge, ...  repos.

But if it is environmentspecific, what can I try?

Thanks

I still cannot reproduce this in my environment.  Nobody else can reproduce it, except for you.  I even tried calling the scheme bindings directly and still no crash:

[warlord@cliodev ~]$ /opt/gnucash-svk/bin/gnucash-env guile
guile> (use-modules (g-wrapped gw-kvp))
guile> (use-modules (gnucash engine))
guile> (define session (gnc:session-new))
guile> (define book (gnc:session-get-book session))
guile> book
#<gw:wcp <gnc:Book*> 0x9e10b68>
guile> (define txn (gnc:transaction-create book))
guile> txn
#<gw:wcp <gnc:Transaction*> 0x9dc57c8>
guile> (define slots (gnc:transaction-get-slots txn))
guile> slots
#<gw:wcp <gnc:kvp-frame*> 0x9dc5868>
guile> (gnc:kvp-frame-set-slot-path slots "ddd" (list "foo" "bar"))
guile> (gnc:kvp-frame-get-slot-path slots (list "foo" "bar"))
"ddd"
guile>

Can you 'rm -rf' your gnucash install tree and then "make distclean" and rebuild?

Unfortunately, since I cannot reproduce it, I cannot debug it.  The code as-written should work just fine, and indeed it has worked fine for years and still works for me.  This particular code has not changed since r7094 on July 7, 2002.

@Martin: Does this error still occur? Also, you can try to enter the same command as in comment#5 so that this is really only using the scheme bindings. On the other hand if nobody else sees this, then it's probably not related to the gnucash code but instead maybe some guile or g-wrap version issue. Otherwise, we'll probably close this bug as INVALID since it doesn't seem to be a general bug.

No, in gnucash-2.0.0 it works.  I think its because I mad a hand installation on my fedora system and the fedora-development gnucash does not work or something.

So its not for you, it may be for fedora, i don't know.

Thanks,
Martin

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