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

[Robert Heller]

  Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>,
  In a message on Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:14:14 -0500, wrote :

JS> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 13:07, Robert Heller wrote:
JS> 
JS> > Yes.  I clicked on 'File Bug Report' and bug-buddy created one.  I had
JS> > to futz with the bug-buddy Bug Report and I believe I cc'ed the report
JS> > to you.
JS> 
JS> Ooh ... do you know the bug number?  I'm going to try to consolidate all
JS> these editing-related-crashing bugs together...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134433

JS> 
JS> > It seems that something in the scheduled transaction editor is in
JS> > trouble.  The problem only appeared when I put in Bi-Weekly scheduled
JS> > transactions and seems to have gone away when I deleted the Bi-Weekly
JS> > scheduled transactions.
JS> 
JS> It seems there are multiple bugs related specifically to editing and
JS> more specifically to changing the frequency.  I'm almost positive it's
JS> all the same issue of memory-corruption; the task now is to track down
JS> in which module the corruption lies. :/
JS> 
JS> Is it solidly reproducable for you with a specific data file or sequence
JS> of steps? If so, and you're willing to send it to me in private
JS> correspondance, I should be able to move a bit quicker on the issue. 
JS> I've been able to reproduce it, but only [very] intermittently. :(

It was.  I just created some Bi-Weekly scheduled transactions.

JS> 
JS> ...jsled
JS> 
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JS> # A: Because it breaks the flow of normal conversation.
JS> # Q: Why don't we put the response before the request?
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