Applying Scheduled Payment Kills Program

[Gregg Fowler]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:18 +1100, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:08, Gregg Fowler wrote:
> > I am very new to GNUCash. I have been using it for less than a week.
> > Just migrated same time period from Windows XP to Ubuntu linux and have
> > been using Microsoft Money. Took me a while to get the program set up as
> > there were conflicts with some of my transactions that I imported.
> > Finally got that all straightened out and got the hang of the basics. I
> > have one problem. I set up a payment schedule for all of my bills in the
> > Scheduler. It came time to pay a bill and I can click on the particular
> > bill and go next and it shows the amount. When I go forward again
> > however, the action kills the program immediately and it dissappears
> > from the screen. This happens every time. I have repeated this about 10
> > times with the same result. Does anyone have any idea of where I might
> > find the conflict and a solution. As I said I am very new to Linux. Any
> > help would be greatly appreciated. Scheduling my bills in this manner is
> > the only thing that I must have to complete the transition.
> >
> >                                         Thanks,
> >
> >                                         Gregg
> 
> Yes, we know this one well. You have a mistake in the schedule of bills (mine 
> used to be that a transaction was unbalanced, ie had no account to pay 
> from) .
> You need to turn off the scheduled payments. Try following this from the wiki
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_GnuCash_crashes_on_startup_trying_to_run_an_SX.__How_do_I_fix_this.3F
> 
> Liz
> 
> 


Thanks everyone. I believe I see clearly the errors now. I originally
tried to set up the payments and the window was minimize. I didn't see
the "big picture". I think I have them set up correctly, but think I
will wait for a test run tomorrow. Once again. Thanks. 
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