2.0.4 crash

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Unless you were to acquire a stacktrace (or be able to reproduce the
crash) I don't know how useful this report would be, I'm afraid.

-derek

"Donald Allen" <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:

> I am running gnucash 2.0.4 on an up-to-date Gentoo system. Today, I was
> updating my financial records, which included the purchase of a municipal
> bond in an investment account. First, I created the bond and associated
> commodity under the brokerage asset account and then the income subaccount
> for the interest from the bond. I then went back to the brokerage account,
> which is where the cash lives, and attempted to enter a transaction paying
> the accrued interest to the interest income account. I have had accrued
> interest transactions before in this account, so I typed some part of
> 'accrued' and hit 'tab'. It completed the description and promptly crashed.
> I then repeated the foregoing, saving after each step, and the crash
> occurred again. I brought up gnucash yet again, and this time the steps
> preliminary to entering the accrued interest transaction weren't necessary.
> So I entered the accrued interest transaction exactly the same way and this
> time I was able to proceed without any problem. So something about those
> preliminary steps would seem to have planted a time-bomb in the internal
> data-structures, seemingly without corrupting the saved data file (I did run
> a check-and-repair and as near as I can tell by comparing the gunzipped
> before-and-after files, it did a little fiddling with a transaction from
> several years ago and that's all).
>
> This warrants a bug report, though I'm not really sure how useful that would
> be, since I can't help the developers reproduce it without providing  the
> file with my complete financial history, which I'm obviously not willing to
> do. I could try to reproduce this with a new set of fictitious accounts. But
> I thought I'd post this here first, in case Derek or one of the other
> developers has an idea what the problem might be, in which case I wouldn't
> need to bother trying to reproduce it.
>
> /Don Allen
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