Check and Repair adds Orphaned Gains

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 23 11:10:56 EDT 2006


Robert Ramsdell <rcriii at ramsdells.net> writes:

> I just successfully compiled 1.9.8 (svn r14412) on my Ubuntu Dapper
> system (The wiki page for compiling on Breezy was great help, I only had
> to add a few other packages).  So thanks everyone for that.
>
> On a lark I tried the Check and Repair function.  All looked well except
> that it created a new account called "Orphaned-Gains-USD", with a very
> large balance.  In that account are realized gains transactions for a
> large number of stock and mutual fund sales.  The problem is, I already
> had realized gain/loss transactions for many of those sales (I've found
> a few that I didn't do this for), the few of which I've checked match
> exactly the sums of the new transactions. An Example:
>
> Date	Description(Transfer)	Shares	Price	Buy	Sell	Balance
> 10/24	open(equity:cost basis)	133	20.11	2675		133
> 6/6	sale (Split)		-133	8.05		1071	0
> 6/6	(Inc:real:stock)				1604	0
> 6/6	(Orphaned Gains-USD)				1604	0
> ^^^ This last added by Check and Repair			^^^^
>
> Is this a Check and repair bug?

Huh.  I thought we had turned off the cap-gains code..

-derek
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