Bug 560018 - gnucash silently closes when no X11 / $DISPLAY is present
Summary: gnucash silently closes when no X11 / $DISPLAY is present
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnucash
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-29 17:07 UTC by Chris Jones
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-16 22:11:01 UTC
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GNOME Bugzilla 610202 0 None None None Never

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.
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