Unbalanced balance sheet

[Derrick Ashby]

Hello Derek,

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Derrick Ashby <daeroncs at fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>  
>
>>>>needed to install cvs (duh!). Now, when I type in the cvs command
>>>>given on the gnucash cvs page and enter the password "guest" I get
>>>>an error:
>>>>
>>>>Fatal error: aborting
>>>>daeroncs: no such user.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Did you follow the instructions at http://www.gnucash.org/en/hacking.phtml to
>>>login to the cvs server?  This is the page you get if you click on "CVS Access"
>>>on the GnuCash website.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, I did - that's where I got the password from.  Nor did I commit any 
>>typos when I entered the command line string. I checked. Do I need to do 
>>any setup of cvs locally first, and if so, what?
>>    
>>
>
>It sounds like you did not properly type the cvs login command.  It
>sounds like you tried to login with the user daeroncs, which does not
>exist on the CVS server.
>
>  
>
>>I don't know that looking at the report code would do a whole lot for 
>>me.   What I actually want to look at is the output of a working balance 
>>sheet...
>>
>>Sorry if I'm being a pain, but you know what they say - no pain, no gain.
>>
>>Derrick (geez, this must be getting to me, I nearly spelt my name wrong, 
>>there...)
>>    
>>
>
>Hmm...  Well, it IS possible that the report in CVS HEAD wont work,
>properly, either.  The HEAD code is not nearly 'user-ready'.
>
>-derek
>
>  
>
Now he tells me!  I confess that it WAS a typo! I am now checking out 
gnucash as per the instructions on the cvs page at gnucash.  I sometimes 
think that computers exist merely to make we operators look like 
complete fools.  In my case I admit that they don't have to try that 
hard... I will let you know how I get on. 

Incidentally, I have to report that when I upgraded from 1.8.9 to 1.8.10 
I found that whereas before I could be entering a transaction in an 
account window, find that I needed to create a new account, click back 
to the main account tree window, create the account and have it 
immediately available in the account window I was using, now I have to 
close that window before the list of accounts gets refreshed.  A 
distinct disimprovement.  I know that in the ideal world we would all 
carefully setup our tree of accounts before entering a single 
transaction, but ...

Derrick