2.0.4 crash

[Donald Allen]

Derek --

When I said my system was up-to-date, I should have qualified that with "as
of last weekend". I'm updating again now and I think there was a version
mis-match between gnucash and the guile library, which, if I'm understanding
what the gentoo folks are saying, was the result of a dependency bug that
they've fixed. Once I get things rebuilt, I will attempt the same operations
on my personal data that caused the problem yesterday. It's possible that
what I ran into was a result of this issue. I will let you know what
happens.

/Don

On 2/11/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Unless you were to acquire a stacktrace (or be able to reproduce the
> crash) I don't know how useful this report would be, I'm afraid.
>
> -derek
>
> "Donald Allen" <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am running gnucash 2.0.4 on an up-to-date Gentoo system. Today, I was
> > updating my financial records, which included the purchase of a
> municipal
> > bond in an investment account. First, I created the bond and associated
> > commodity under the brokerage asset account and then the income
> subaccount
> > for the interest from the bond. I then went back to the brokerage
> account,
> > which is where the cash lives, and attempted to enter a transaction
> paying
> > the accrued interest to the interest income account. I have had accrued
> > interest transactions before in this account, so I typed some part of
> > 'accrued' and hit 'tab'. It completed the description and promptly
> crashed.
> > I then repeated the foregoing, saving after each step, and the crash
> > occurred again. I brought up gnucash yet again, and this time the steps
> > preliminary to entering the accrued interest transaction weren't
> necessary.
> > So I entered the accrued interest transaction exactly the same way and
> this
> > time I was able to proceed without any problem. So something about those
> > preliminary steps would seem to have planted a time-bomb in the internal
> > data-structures, seemingly without corrupting the saved data file (I did
> run
> > a check-and-repair and as near as I can tell by comparing the gunzipped
> > before-and-after files, it did a little fiddling with a transaction from
> > several years ago and that's all).
> >
> > This warrants a bug report, though I'm not really sure how useful that
> would
> > be, since I can't help the developers reproduce it without
> providing  the
> > file with my complete financial history, which I'm obviously not willing
> to
> > do. I could try to reproduce this with a new set of fictitious accounts.
> But
> > I thought I'd post this here first, in case Derek or one of the other
> > developers has an idea what the problem might be, in which case I
> wouldn't
> > need to bother trying to reproduce it.
> >
> > /Don Allen
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