Fesity Herd 5 GNUCash Crash on PostScript Printer Output

[Roger Neth Jr]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 22:16 -0400, Scott Abbey wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Scott, thank you very much and have a good weekend!

Roger