Payable Aging Report Totals column produces error

[Charles Day]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Gene <genestairs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles Day wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com <mailto:
>> cedayiv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu
>>    <mailto:warlord at mit.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>        Hi,
>>
>>        Gene <genestairs at gmail.com <mailto:genestairs at gmail.com>> writes:
>>
>>        > Well, I installed the desktop full version of 2.25 and
>>        received the
>>        > same error.
>>        > This did generate a gnucash.trace file, and here's the contents,
>>        > however I have no idea what it means....
>>        >
>>        > *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2441 bytes.
>>        > The identifiers might not be very random.
>>        > *   WARN <gnc.app-util> Could not spawn perl: Failed to
>>        execute child
>>        > process (No such file or directory)
>>        > *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed:
>>        > Invalid window handle.
>>        > *   WARN <Gdk> gdkselection-win32.c:1068: OpenClipboard failed:
>>        > Invalid window handle.
>>
>>        Unfortunately it means absolutely nothing.
>>
>>        If the report actually had an ERROR it should have printed it out
>>        to the trace file...   Or the console.  But there is no console
>>        on win32 so anything printed _there_ gets lost.
>>
>>
>>    The error is probably happening in the report's Scheme code. If
>>    you could see console output, there would be a nice set of
>>    debugging messages that would really help.
>>
>>    I wonder if the result would be any different if you launched
>>    GnuCash from a DOS-style command prompt, rather than from an icon.
>>
>>    Derek, when I get a second I'll see if I can figure out a way to
>>    get Scheme backtraces directed to gnucash.trace instead of (or in
>>    addition to) the console. That sure would help sometimes.
>>
>>
>> Committed as r17209 with backport requested.
>>
>> Gene, if you want to try out this patch, it should get the Scheme
>> debugging output into the trace file where you can see it.
>>
>> -Charles
>>
> Can you give me quick directions how to apply this?
> Do I need to cut and paste into a file, and then run?
>
>
l've applied the patch. Just backup your existing copy of main.scm, then
replace it with the version attached. Then restart GnuCash, try to produce
the error again, and check the trace file.

Cheers,
Charles
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