What does this error mean?

Chris Lyttle chris@wilddev.net
13 Sep 2002 02:43:16 -0700


On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 02:30, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 02:16, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 21:19, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> > > On  4 Sep, To: gnucash-devel@lists.gnucash.org wrote:
> > > > Never mind. I just remembered that I got something similar a while back
> > > > and I found my answer. Seems like scheduled transactions acasue problems
> > > > if gnucash isn't exited in a proper manner.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Might I add, it only happens when you have scheduled transactions that
> > > you ask to create automatically. In order to fix the problem, I wen into
> > > my .xac file and I changed all <sx:advanceCreateDays> values to 0 and my
> > > file got loaded properly.
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually there's more of a problem than this. I just ran into exactly
> > the same thing and the above didnt fix it for me. Laurent this is, as
> > you suggest, caused by a crash. Can you file a bug report for this and
> > cc my email on it. I think this is something Josh needs to look into as
> > users shouldn't need to edit their account files after a crash in order
> > to get working again.
> > 
> > Chris
> > -- 
> As a followup to this, I managed to get around the problem. I believe it
> was being cause by a corrupted SX. I went the the SX editor and checked
> all my SX's for the automatic creation flag being turned on. In my case
> only one of them had this, however one SX consistantly crashed GnuCash
> whenever I tried to open it with the following error;
> 
> ** ERROR **: file gnc-dense-cal.c: line 1413 (gnc_dense_cal_mark):
> assertion failed: (doc < dcal->numMarks)
> aborting...
> Aborted
> 
> I deleted this SX and now the since last run works fine. (Oh I turned
> the single automatic creation flagged SX off)
> 
Uhh, followup again, I had to delete all my SX's and recreate em to get
it working again. It just failed later with the above attempt at fixing
it.

Chris
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