Strange Error Message: "Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created."

[Brian M. Sutin]

Hello!  I am running Gnucash 2.2.6 on SuSE 10.2.  Since there appears to
be no rpm available, I compiled Gnucash.  (I did find an rpm for 2.02, but
this problem still appears.)  When I try to save a new scheduled transaction
or modify a previous scheduled transaction, I get a pop-up that says:

  Scheduled Transactions with variables cannot be automatically created.

The first problem with this message is that it is completely uninformative.
For even simple transactions that just move a fixed amount from one account
to another, I get this message.  How do I fix this?  At the moment I am
unable to create or modify my scheduled transactions.

Thanks!

Brian

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