Recovering from crash

Paul Schwartz pmjs1115 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 6 10:53:37 EST 2006



--- Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Paul Schwartz <pmjs1115 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > paul at paulsbox:~/gnucash$ gnucash PnMGL2a
> > Warning: xaccTransFindOldCommonCurr...(): unable
> to
> [snip]
> >
> > The font stuff at the bottom is normal, but the
> > Warnings are new. I'm running 1.8.10.  What are
> the
> > warnings for? What should I do about them.
> 
> The warnings are because the Log replay creates
> bogus
> transactions.  It's a known bug.  All you can do in
> 1.8
> is fix your data file XML by hand (search the lists
> for
> previous discussions on this topic).
> 
> GnuCash 1.9 has this fixed.  The Check & Repair
> function
> will correct your data file, and the Log Replay
> function
> wont create bogus transactions anymore.
> 
> -derek
> -- 
>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media
> Laboratory
>        Member, MIT Student Information Processing
> Board  (SIPB)
>        URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/   
> PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>        warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP
> key available
> 
Thanks. I've decided that the lowest risk is to go to
the last backup that doesn't produce the warnings and
manually replay the logs.

Paul

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