Problem going from 2.2.0

[Scott Castaline]

locale as in settings within gnucash or is there something in Fedora?

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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
> > > mailer's Reply-to-List or Reply-All features.
> > >
> > > "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
> > > >
> > > >     --
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> > >       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
> > >      Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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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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