Bug 560018

Summary:	gnucash silently closes when no X11 / $DISPLAY is present
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Jones <rollercow>
Component:	gnucash	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	notting, rvokal
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Description Chris Jones 2010-01-29 17:07:58 UTC

Description of problem:
gnucash silently closes when no X11 / $DISPLAY is present

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnucash-2.2.9-2.fc12.i686

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh to a box without using X forwarding
2. try to start gnucash
3. get confused as to why its not working
  
Actual results:
$ssh foo
$gnucash
$

Expected results:
$ssh foo
$gnucash
"You muppet! try it again but with $DISPLAY this time" or similar error message
$

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2010-02-16 22:11:01 UTC

Thanks for the report. This is not something I'm likely to have time to fix locally in our builds; I've reported the bug to the original GnuCash authors at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610202

When they fix it, we'll pull it into our builds.