Gnucash upgrade not working

[Kevin Rutherford]

Thanks Tommy, I'll try 2.6.3 from getdeb and let you know if that
fixes the problem.
Cheers,
kevin

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Kevin Rutherford
> <kevin at rutherford-software.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I've been using Gnucash 2.4.x for 6 years and been very happy with it.
>> But last week I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which brought with it an
>> upgrade to Gnucash 2.6.1. This new version of Gnucash can read my
>> accounts file, but for one particular account it won't let me add new
>> transactions: After I enter the transaction details and press Return,
>> the new transaction remains open, and I can then do nothing in that
>> account until I have deleted that transaction.
>>
>> It does appear that I can enter transactions via the general ledger,
>> but that's somewhat inconvenient. And of course I have no confidence
>> that my accounts file remains uncorrupted.
>>
>> Do any of you have any ideas what might be wrong? And more
>> importantly, how can I recover the situation so that I can use my
>> accounts without losing data?
>
>
> Greetings! I see that someone else has responded to you but unfortunately
> that person did not edit the subject line of the message, so look for a
> message titled "Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 134, Issue 6."
>
> Unfortunately the version of GnuCash that got included in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
> (aka "Trusty Tahr") was an early revision of a major release, and there are
> some serious bugs that have been addressed. The current stable version is
> 2.6.3. I'm not certain the bugs are addressed in 2.6.3, but upgrading will
> be the first thing to try.
>
> For several options on upgrading the version you have in Ubuntu, see
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu
>
> I think most people find the GetDeb repository the easiest way to upgrade
> GnuCash, though as we have discussed on this list recently it might be a
> good idea to request 2.6.3 to be included in Ubuntu's official Backports
> repository. (But don't wait to upgrade because the Backports process takes
> time.)
>
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