Check and Repair adds Orphaned Gains

[Robert Ramsdell]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 11:10 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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..
For what it is worth, it looks like it has something to do with lots.
In accounts where there are many of separate purchases, there are many
separate "Orphaned Gains" transactions, all dated the day of the sale.

Robert