[GNC-dev] There was an error parsing the file...

chris graves mohavebaked at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 11:00:18 EDT 2018


Same thing happens when using the new build to create a new gnucash file.  Removing the duplicate lines allows the file to open, but they are placed right back at the next save.

> On Sep 16, 2018, at 11:56 AM, chris graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I performed a git clone of the maint branch on July 31st, built and
> have been using it successfully since.  Today I performed a git pull in
> the unmodified clone.  Now using the freshly compiled gnucash, when opening a saved (via save as) copy
> of a previously okay gnucash file I get the error:
> "There was an error parsing the file".
> 
> Uncompressing and doing an sdiff -s on the original file and the non-working saved file:
> mbp:gnucashSaves chris$ sdiff -s ok.gnucash bad.gnucash 
> 							      >	     xmlns:vendor="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/vendor"
> 							      >	     xmlns:addr="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/addr"
> 							      >	     xmlns:billterm="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/billterm"
> 							      >	     xmlns:bt-days="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-days"
> 							      >	     xmlns:bt-prox="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/bt-prox"
> 							      >	     xmlns:cust="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cust"
> 							      >	     xmlns:employee="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/employee"
> 							      >	     xmlns:entry="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/entry"
> 							      >	     xmlns:invoice="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/invoice"
> 							      >	     xmlns:job="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/job"
> 							      >	     xmlns:order="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/order"
> 							      >	     xmlns:owner="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/owner"
> 							      >	     xmlns:taxtable="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/taxtable"
> 							      >	     xmlns:tte="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/tte"
> mbp:gnucashSaves chris$
> 
> It turns out that each of the above lines appears twice in the non-working file.  After
> manually removing the duplicates, the file opens just fine.
> 
> Thoughts...



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