2.0.4 crash

[Donald Allen]

I spent some time trying to get gnucash 2.0.4, guile, and g-wrap built,
failed,  and finally reached the conclusion that when the gentoo folks mark
packages "testing" and mask them for that reason, there probably is a good
reason. I've been aggressive for some time about gnucash versions, unmasking
versions still marked "testing", and have gotten away with it. I think it
finally bit me. So, I undid all that, rebuilt the "stable" gnucash,
2.0.1and associated libraries and, of course, that built without
incident. I then
retried the sequence of operations that crashed gnucash on Saturday, and
that also worked without incident. So, either

a. I didn't reproduce the problem sequence perfectly this morning
b. The crash was due to a bug introduced since 2.0.1
c. The crash was due to version mis-match issues between 2.0.4 and the
libraries that the gentoo folks are still trying to untangle and which is
why 2.0.4 is still marked "testing". I'm guessing this is the answer, in
which case my apologies for polluting this forum with a non-problem.

/Don

On 2/11/07, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> > --
> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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