Reconcile doesn't work (was: GNU Cash installation issue)

[Ron Radke]

Thanks for being willing to work on this issue as well, Geert and David.

Geert, I basically did what you said below sometime yesterday before I saw
your email. No matter. The offending transaction did change to "y" this time
so for now that issue is resolved. If it happens again, I'll send you the
trace file.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:03 AM
To: David T.
Cc: Leslie Radke; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Reconcile doesn't work (was: GNU Cash installation issue)

On donderdag 10 maart 2011, David T. wrote:
> --- On Thu, 3/10/11, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
> > On donderdag 10 maart 2011, Leslie
> > Radke wrote:
> > > I reconciled one of my bank accounts in January, but
> > > when I went to
> > > reconcile February's statement, one of the
> > > transactions had converted back
> > > to "c". I did the reconcile again and once again
> > > marked this translation
> > > as part of reconciling. That zero'ed everything out
> > > and I finished, only
> > > to still have the transaction marked as "c" instead of
> > > "y." I couldn't
> > > find any way manually to change the "c" to "y", only
> > > to move from "n" to
> > > "c". Is there a way to do this?
> > > 
> > If you wish to continue with gnucash, can I ask you to
> > create a new thread for 
> > this problem ? We are so deep in the installation issue
> > thread, that I doubt 
> > anyone but you and me are still reading this one. I don't
> > have a good answer 
> > to this question (which is very unlikely to be Windows
> > only), but others may 
> > have.
> > 
> Some of us do read through these threads (even if we aren't using
> Windows!).
> 
Heh, thanks for letting us know. I was starting to feel lonely here :)
Ok, let's continue to look at this here then. I did change the subject of
the 
mails going forward.

> It wonder if these issues are linked somehow. They are both related to a
> failure of writing data--although I can't imagine how that might be.
> 
Of course I'm not 100% sure, but I would doubt that in this case. The code 
that writes the preferences in gconf is completely different from the code 
that writes the reconcile flag.

But obviously, we can only know by measuring.

Ron,

Are you willing to run a test for this, here's what I'd like you to do:
* Start GnuCash
* Run reconcile on the bank account
* Choose your end date such that it the only transaction to reconcile is the

offending one.
* Mark the offending transaction as reconciled
* Click finish
=> Just to check: the offending transaction is still not marked as "y" ?
* Save and quit
* Find the most recent gnucash trace file and attach it here.

Geert