Can't change business phone number

[Mike Evans]

On Wednesday 30 December 2009 09:09:10 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Mike Evans wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 December 2009 15:52:10 Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:56 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> > > >> 2009/12/16 Owain Sutton <mail at owainsutton.co.uk>:
> > > >> > I need to change the phone number found under File-Properties. 
> > > >> > When I do so, however, GnuCash crashes, with the following message
> > > >> > if launched from a terminal window:
> > > >>
> > > >> It is ok for me on version  on 2.2.9 and on 2.3.7 (plus a few
> > > >> commits I think) on Ubuntu 9.10.
> > > >>
> > > >> Colin L
> > > >
> > > > I have the same problem with any changes to properties.  This occurs
> > > > with versions 2.2.9 and 2.3.8 on Fedora 11.  I've had to manually
> > > > edit the XML file to make changes.
> > >
> > > I cannot reproduce it here.  Are you using Fedora's 2.2.9 or your own
> > > homebuilt version?  I'm wondering if somehow the 2.2.9 and 2.3.8
> > > versions on your system are interacting poorly?
> > >
> > > > Mike E
> > >
> > > -derek
> >
> > Further  information.  I found that a new file/account properties could
> > be changed OK except for the FancyDateFormat.  Since my account is set to
> > ISO date format I tried to set a test account to ISO data format with an
> > immediate crash on Apply or OK.  Setting FancyDateFormat back to locale
> > was not possible Testing with version 2.2.5  (Built 2008-04-29 from
> > r17141M) revealed no issues.
> 
> The FancyDateFormat crasher is a known bug:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582325
> 
> So far it has been reported on Mandriva and Arch linux. You are the first
>  one to report it on Fedora. It seems like this bug is not reproducible on
>  all distros, which may suggest a problem in one of gnucash' dependencies.
> 
> It would help the gnucash devs if you add a comment to the bugreport with
>  some details on your configuration.
> 
> Do you run version 2.2.5 on the same system ? Or on an older linux distro ?
I installed and tested 2.2.5 using yum on a laptop running Fedora 8.  I have 
just compiled and installed 2.3.8 on Fedora 8 and there are no crashes on 
changing properties.

Thanks for letting me know there was already a bug report on FancyDate, I will 
add my comments to the report. 


Mike
> 
> Geert
> 



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