GnuCash crashes when importing QIF file

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks,

I think I'm going to need your QIF.  Can you file a bug report
and attach the QIF there?  Your bug is a little more difficult
to track down than Melinda's was.

-derek

Quoting Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>:

> In my case:
>
> gnucash
> gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version ""1.11"
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>   ?: 0* [qif-file:parse-fields #]
> In /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-file.scm:
> 505: 1* (let* (# # # #) (and # # # ...) (cond # #))
> 520: 2* (and # # # ...)
> 561: 3* [check-and-parse-field #<procedure qif-xtn:date #> ...]
> 651: 4  (let (# # #) (if # #) (cond # # #) ...)
> 679: 5* (cond (# # # #) (# #) (#t #))
> 684: 6* (and (not (null? (cdr formats))) do-parsing)
> 684: 7* [not ...
> 684: 8*  [null? ...
> 684: 9*   [cdr #f]
>
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-file.scm:684:24: In procedure cdr in
> expression (cdr formats):
> /usr/share/gnucash/scm/qif-import/qif-file.scm:684:24: Wrong type argument in
> position 1: #f
>
> I have kept the .QIF file if you need to see it.
>
> Doug.
>
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 01:43, warlord at mit.edu wrote:
>> What's printed on the terminal?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Quoting Melinda Savoy <savoymp at yahoo.com>:
>> > Actually I am having the same problem when importing the QIF that is
>> > exported from Quicken itself.  When I get to the last step in the
>> > GnuCash import wizard the GnuCash application crashes (I am assuming)
>> > and disappears.  No error msg it just disappears from my screen.
>> >
>> > The only difference is that I am working on the new release of GnuCash
>> > 2.0.4
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> wrote: I just had the same
>> > problem.  It is caused by the QIF exported by KMymoney.
>> > The QIF starts with a list of all the available accounts, then lists the
>> > transactions, but in a rather different format.  In view of this last
>> > observation, I didn't bother with deleting the firast part and trying
>> > again.
>> >
>> > I don't know when another format will become standard here in Oz.  It
>> > still seems to be QIF everywhere.
>> >
>> > Doug.
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:26, Arkadi Gelfond wrote:
>> >> I'm using GnuCash ver.  2.0.1-3   built from r14585 on 2006-09-13,
>> >> running on Debian Etch(testing)
>> >>
>> >> GnuCash crashes now on the last step after 'Enter the currency used
>> >> for new accounts'. It did not happen before, in fact I was able to
>> >> import most of my data using numerous QIF files, but now it crashes
>> >> even if I try to import the same QIF files into empty file.
>> >>
>> >> here is the trace I found in the /tmp:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> gnucash: /usr/lib/gnucash/libgnc-backend-postgres.so: cannot open
>> >> shared object file: No such file or directory
>> >>
>> >> failed to load gnc-backend-postgres from /usr/lib/gnucash
>> >>
>> >> loading system configuration
>> >> looking for /etc/gnucash/config
>> >> trying to load /etc/gnucash/config
>> >> loading user configuration
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-2.0.user
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-1.8.user
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-1.6.user
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config.user
>> >> loading auto configuration
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-2.0.auto
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-1.8.auto
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config-1.6.auto
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/config.auto
>> >> loading saved reports
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/saved-reports-2.0
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8
>> >> loading stylesheets
>> >> looking for /home/arkadi/.gnucash/stylesheets-2.0
>> >> trying to load /home/arkadi/.gnucash/stylesheets-2.0
>> >>
>> >> Thx
>> >> Arkadi
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