Bug 119029 - Guile breaks Gnucash: "doesn't have "primitive-fork"
Summary: Guile breaks Gnucash: "doesn't have "primitive-fork"
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: guile
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-24 00:12 UTC by Graham Leggett
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-24 11:56:20 UTC
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Description Graham Leggett 2004-03-24 00:12:50 UTC
Description of problem:

If gnucash is installed under RHEL3, it bombs out on startup like so:

[minfrin@gatekeeper rpms]$ gnucash
Backtrace:
In unknown file:
   ?: 0* [start-program]
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/price-quotes.scm:
 224: 1* (set! program (gnc:run-sub-process #f
gnc:*finance-quote-check* ...))
 224: 2* [gnc:run-sub-process #f
"/usr/share/gnucash/finance-quote-check" ...]
In /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:
  46: 3  (let (# #) (if # #f #))
   ...
  60: 4  (if (not #) (begin # # #) (begin # # # ...))
  60: 5* [not ...
  60: 6*  [zero? #f]
 
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20: In
procedure zero? in expression (zero? pid):
/usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/process.scm:60:20: Wrong type
argument in position 1: #f

A post to the gnucash list reveals the following response:

> The problem is that guile on RHEL3 is broken.  In particular it
> doesn't have "primitive-fork".  I have no idea how red hat screwed
> this up, but it's their fault.  If you rebuild guile from source
> it should be fine.  You might be able to just rebuild from the
> SRPM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
guile-1.6.4-8


How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2006-01-24 11:56:20 UTC
Gnucash is not a part of RHEL3 distribution and running applications from
outside is not supported.


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