Two errors with Gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

A number of SX issues were fixed in 1.8.9, so upgrading may fix those
issues (or may not; it's unclear which bug(s) you're seeing).

As for disappearing files, it's probably an SMB race condition.  Is
there any output on the terminal where you started gnucash from the
commandline?  (Didn't start gnucash from a terminal?  Well, try it, it
might tell you what's wrong).

Any reason you don't use NFS for your data files?  It's not like you
could run GnuCash on windows.

-derek

Richard Thomas <tich at clad.co.nz> writes:

> I'm running gnucash-1.8.8-49 on Suse Pro 9.1. I have been running Gnucash 
> first under various RedHat versions for several years and switched to Suse 
> about 4 months or so ago.
>
> Recently I have had two errors start occuring.  The first one involves
> Scheduled Transactions.  I have a number of these and they were fine for
> about a year or so.  However, in the last month when ever a scheduled
> transaction is run the account balance column only shows a dollar sign
> instead of the actual balance.  I have to manually edit each transaction
> in order to get the balance to display.  All I do is remove and replace
> the last digit of each side of the transaction and hit enter and the
> balance is restored correctly.  
>
> I have deleted and re-entered all the scheduled transactions to no avail.  
> I also tried starting a complete new file with new accounts and 
> transactions and I get the same behaviour.
>
>
> The second problem involves disappearing files.  I have a network and use
> Samba (samba-3.0.2a-51) to provide network shares.  The gnucash data files
> are stored on one of these shares as are all my work related files.  In
> the last week I switched the server OS from RedHat 9.0 to Suse Pro. 9.1.  
> Now when I save a file under gnucash the file is deleted from the network
> share instead of being saved.
>
> I have no problem with other applications (OpenOffice for instance) and
> saving files to the same network share.   I can also save the gnucash file 
> to a local filesystem and then manually copy the file to the network 
> share.  It's only when gnucash does the save that the file disappears.
>
>
> Can anyone shed any light on these problems?
>
> Regards
> Richard
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