"Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric"?

[Tony Bloomfield]

Using gnucash 1.8.4 on Suse 8.2, I've recently started getting the above error 
message on startup. I *think* it began when I added a couple of new 
commodities. Can anyone enlighten me as to what it means, and how to track 
down and get rid of it? I can find only one reference on Google, and that 
doesn't explain it.

I can't actually see anything wrong with my database. I do notice, however, 
that there are discrepancies between the number of accounts 'Total' and those 
'Loaded'. I don't think this is anything to do with my problem, coz I think 
it's always been like that :-)

Here's the output from my startup:

Total: 872, Loaded: 892
Accounts: Total: 100, Loaded: 99
Books: Total: 1, Loaded: 0
Commodities: Total: 18, Loaded: 18
Scheduled Tansactions: Total: 20, Loaded: 13
Transactions: Total: 872, Loaded: 892
Accounts: Total: 100, Loaded: 99
Books: Total: 1, Loaded: 0
Commodities: Total: 18, Loaded: 18
Scheduled Tansactions: Total: 20, Loaded: 14
...above repeated incrementing the last figure (why?) until
Accounts: Total: 100, Loaded: 99
Books: Total: 1, Loaded: 0
Commodities: Total: 18, Loaded: 18
Scheduled Tansactions: Total: 20, Loaded: 20
Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.
Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
TonyB