Problem going from 2.2.0

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 4 16:45:28 EDT 2008


Hi,

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"Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> writes:

> It seems to start around May of 2006. I can't remember any significant event
> that may have occurred at that time to have this effect. As I was explaining

Well, what other transactions happened around that time?  Check your
data file, too?

> to MafiaKing I'm currently having problems sending posts although I do
> regularly receive other posts. I haven't been able to determine why yet, so I
> apologize for being a PITA by sending directly to you rather than the list. I
> have checked the change list on the site and cannot see what is causing the
> issue. As I have told Mafia King, I plan to roll back to 2.2.0 and rule out F8
> as the problem, then try stepping thru the upgrades to see when and where it
> happens. I will also take a closer look at your suggestions.

Your first post (that I replied to) made it just fine to the list.

> TIA

-derek

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>    
>     "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> writes:
>    
>     > I had been running Gnucash 2.2.0 on Fedora 7, I have just installed
>     Fedora
>     > 8 and Gnucash 2.2.4. My checking account now shows a negative balance of
>     > $12,871.25. I can't seem to see what's missing. It seems to go back to
>     2005.
>     > When I run Gnucash 2.2.0 on my old system (Dual-Booting right now)
>     > everything is correct. What changed between 2.2.0 & 2.2.4?
>    
>     You can look at Trac <http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/> to see the
>     history of all the changes made to the 2.2 branch since 2.2.0
>     was released.  Actually, that's not completely true because
>     we didn't actually create the 2.2 branch until around 2.2.1.
>    
>     But I can't imagine anything that could cause this unless you
>     have some garbage in your datafile that 2.2.0 ignored but 2.2.4
>     doesn't (or vise-versa).  You might want to look for some errant
>     transactions in your data file.
>    
>     As what point does the balance start being off?
>     Did your locale change?  Maybe your data file is in a
>     different currency and GnuCash is performing a translation for you?
>    
>     Good Luck,
>    
>     > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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>    
>     -derek
>    
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       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


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