Fesity Herd 5 GNUCash Crash on PostScript Printer Output

[Scott Abbey]

Roger Neth Jr wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I have been having great success using Feisty Herd 5 and enjoy the work
> done by many hardworking developers and bug reporters.
> 
> When I try to print to the postscript printer in Gnucash, it closes
> without printing anything.
> 
> When I tried to reopen it I get this message.
> 
> GnuCash could not obtain the lock for /home/rogern/M&R Services.
> That database may be in use by another user, in which case you should
> not open the database. What would you like to do?
> Open Anyway Create New File Quit
> 
> I rebooted and started Gnucash and still get this error. I selected Open
> Anyway and Gnucash started up and saved successfully. I tried Postscript
> printer again (both lpr and file).
> 
> Same problem.
> 
> Any ideas on should this be a bug report and/or advice on
> troubleshooting this is appreciated.

I'm fairly sure this is related to bug 92447 [1]. GtkHTML is used by GnuCash
in its rendering and printing, and the development version that is in
Feisty is incompatible. The developers seem aware of the trouble (GnuCash
isn't even installable on a clean Feisty) and are actively working on a
solution. Just one of the speedbumps on the road to a release.

Regards,
Scott

1. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnucash/+bug/92477