Kmymoney crashes when trying to create a new account

[Wilfried Hildebrandt]

Am Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:20:14 +0200
schrieb Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018 21:31:22 CEST Mark Adams wrote:
> 
> > Mageia Linux 4.14.40-desktop-1.mga6
> > Kmymoney ver. 5
> > 
> > Tried to create another credit card account today and when I hit the
> > "Finish" button, Kmymoney crashed. Reopened Kmymoney and a the
> > account had not been created.
> > 
> > I repeated that process two more times with the same result.
> > 
> > Attempted to create a regular Asset account and had the same result.
> > 
> > My first inclination is to look at permissions. The
> > ~/.configure/kmymoney directory looks like this:
> > 
> > 
> >      drwxrwxr-x  3 madams madams  4096 Jun  7 13:16 kmymoney
> > 
> > 
> > The subdirectories under that look like this:
> > 
> > 
> >      -rw------- 1 madams madams   73 May 13 17:58 checkprintingrc
> >      drwxrwxr-x 2 madams madams 4096 Jun  7 13:08 html/
> >      -rw------- 1 madams madams 8109 Jun  7 13:16 kmymoneyrc
> > 
> > 
> > I am doing all this under the madams account.
> > 
> > I ran kmymoneyrc through the "less" command and it seems to be okay
> > - no obvious trouble there.
> > I can create and edit budgets with no trouble.
> > I can edit my scheduled transactions.
> > 
> > Any idea how I can troubleshoot this?  
> 
> Can you run this inside a debugger and provide a so called backtrace?
> Here's howto do that inside a console window:
> 
>   % gdb kmymoney
>   [ ... some stuff printed which is not important here ... ]
>   (gdb) run
>   [ ... the stuff that is printed to the console is visible here ...]
> 
> Now use KMyMoney until it crashes. Your console window should now
> show a gdb prompt again. The following command creates the backtrace
> (bt for short):
> 
>   (gdb) bt
>   [ ... this output is important to us ... ]
> 
> If the output is long, gdb stops after a page with the following
> message
> 
>   ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> 
> Hit Return to get more output until the gdb prompt "(gdb)" shows up
> again. All those lines that were printed between the "bt" command and
> the final gdb prompt are important to us.
> 
> Hope that is not too confusing. Maybe, you need to install the gdb
> debugger on your system before you can do that. Also, it helps if you
> have any symbol packages for KMyMoney installed (if those exist for
> your distro).
> 
> In case anything is unclear, please ask here on the list.
> 

It seem to be a Mageia problem. I've installed Mint 19 (beta) at my
virtualbox and I was able to create a new account with Kmymoney 5.0.0