Account not shown in 2.2.9 shows in 2.2.6

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Dec 14 16:28:12 EST 2010


On Thursday 09 December 2010, Bruce wrote:
> Hello Geert,
> 
> Thank you for your interest in this issue.
> I examined the uncompressed GnuCashxxxxx.xac file I tested 2.2.9 with using
> Geany 0.18 in Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 I did a search on the "Cash" account and
> found 1 entry.
> I did a search on the guid of the "Cash" account and found 3138 entries.
> There are no scheduled transactions so "Cash" has 3137 transactions
> I did a search on Transactions and found 7251 entries
> I did a search on Accounts and found 724 accounts.
> Clearly the "Cash" is a majority of the transactions.
> The GnuCash.xac file is 9,793K almost 10 Megabytes
> 
> I did not see any transactions in the "Cash" account when the value in
>  Edit==>Preferences==>Register Defaults
> was 0 or 2000 but did when it was 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000.
> I have not done any further experimentation.
> 
Can you set the preference value to 0, open the Cash account (showing no 
transactions) and close GnuCash again. And afterwards, locate the 
gnucash.trace file in your /tmp directory and send it to the list ?

> I did not have a problem with this in GnuCash 2.2.6 in Linux Mint 7.
> 
> I did test by copying all the gnucash directories from Mint 7 into
> Lucid Puppy 5.1.1.  I only had to replace the libgoffice-so-8.so with
> libgoffice-so-6.so from Linux Mint 7 and update the symlink to get GnuCash
> to run in Lucid.  It still did not display the "Cash" transactions so I
> deleted the lucidsave file without further experimentation.  This suggests
> to me that the problem lies in one of the other lib files that may be
> updated in 2.2.9 vs 2.2.6.
> 
I'm not sure I get this right: you copied the gnucash program from one 
distribution to another ? That's asking for trouble. I don't know Puppy Linux 
and don't know exactly how software is installed on it. But in general - and 
I'm pretty sure this goes for Puppy as well - you should either install 
GnuCash from your distribution's software repository or build it yourself on 
the machine that will run it (or at least a machine with the same version of 
your distribution).

The fact that you had to replace libraries and update softlinks yourself is a 
good sign that the gnucash you copied over is not compatible with Puppy. In 
that case anything can happen, including the odd behaviour you mention here.

> This is way beyond my skill level and experience to find out which lib file
> is causing the problem.
> 
> Thank you for looking at this.
> 
> - Bruce.
> 
Geert


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