Bi-Weekly Scheduled transactions -- bad news...

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Feb 15 11:38:00 CST 2004


Did you get a gdb backtrace from the segfault?

-derek

Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:

> OK, with some poking around I am pretty sure that there is something
> seriously fishy with Bi-Weekly Scheduled transactions.  I added a few of
> these -- a set of payments synchronized with my Bi-Weekly paycheck.  I
> was able to add other Scheduled transactions, but I could not use the
> Scheduled transactions editor while *adding* a new transaction --
> GnuCash (/usr/bin/guile) would crash with a SegFault.
>
> Eventually, I was able to get the Scheduled transactions editor and by
> simply deleting the Bi-Weekly transactions (sight unseen), I was able to
> get things back to functioning sanely (no more crashing).
>
> Someone needs to have a seriously close look at the Scheduled
> transactions code, particularly looking at the Bi-Weekly code.
>
> It seems somehow related to the code in gdate.c -- somehow it is
> mis-creating date strings or something like that.
>
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