Problem going from 2.2.0

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 4 17:29:46 EDT 2008


So what you're saying is that 2.2.0 on F8 gives you the same results
as 2.2.4 on F8, but 2.2.0 on F7 works fine?  If that's what you're saying
then that leads me to believe there's something with your locale.

-derek

Quoting Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>:

> Just got 2.2.0 installed and I'm getting the same thing, but when I reboot
> into my Fedora 7 system the file's balance is correct. I'm really confused
> now. I don't have a clue as to where to begin looking. I do vaguely remember
> something about character coding? Something with the OS itself, does that
> make sense?
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please remember to CC gnucash-user on ALL REPLIES using your
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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.
>> >     > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>> >
>> >     -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
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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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       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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