"Warning: PrintAmountInternal: Bad numeric"?

[Derek Atkins]

This is probably the "scheduled transaction makes a bad transaction"
bug.  Check your database for a amounts/values of "1/0".

-derek

Tony Bloomfield <tonyb.lx at btinternet.com> writes:

> 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
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