Re GnuCash Features Survey

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
02 Jul 2001 14:01:38 -0700


On 02 Jul 2001 23:07:27 -0400, Bart Simons wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have followed the discussions with much interest and I am sort of amused 
> that I as an rather old (57) nontechie (M.D.) was able to get gnucash 
> installed after many failures ( for example compiling did not work, many 
> dependency problems) with the Mandrake package. 
> There is one thing I cannot solve. Importing my old gnucash files went 
> smoothless. But, at opening some of the accounts the program crashes. I 
> reported this earlier on this list and even sent a test file to Dave 
> Peticolas who saw no irregularities. I then sent a kind of bugreport, but 
> till now got no answer. Paul  Poulain on 23 june reported the same problem.
> I will repeat the error messages below in the hope that someone who 
> understands them (I do not) can give me a clue

I think this is now fixed (I sent a patch to Paul who reported
it fixed his problem). If you compiled from source, I can send
you a patch. Otherwise, the fix will be in 1.6.1, which is due
to be released on Friday.

dave