funny invoice posting behaviour?

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sun Nov 6 11:16:32 EST 2011


On woensdag 2 november 2011, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a disk failure recently that, as it worked out, was easier to
> fix by resintalling Ubuntu than by recovering the broken RAID.  I was
> on 10.04 LTS, but I decided this time to install 11.10.
> 
> It appears that Gnucash got updated between these major releases, so
> that whereas the old version I had was 2.2.something, I now have
> 2.4.7.
> 
> My old file opened up fine, but I'm having some very surprising
> results with invoices.  After 15 or so minutes of Googling, I didn't
> turn anything up, so I thought I would ask about whether there is
> something that could be wrong.  I also looked at the changelog 2.4.7
> to 2.4.8, and I don't see anything that stands out as probably being
> the answer to my problem, but I might have missed something.
> 
> When I post an invoice, the little "post" icon doesn't go away, and
> the "unpost" button doesn't un-grey itself.  The invoice appears no
> longer to be editable, however.  Moreover, although the terms are
> Net30 and the due date shows up correctly in the window before
> posting, when I go looking for posted invoices in the customer report,
> nothing shows up.  Finally, the due date that gets printed on the
> invoice (posted 1 Nov) is 31 Oct 1969 (I presume this is somehow
> related to UNIX epoch, but I don't know of course).
> 
> I tried running gnucash directly from a terminal window in order to
> see what happened, but nothing changes.  All I get is main:binreloc
> relocation support was disabled at configure time, and the notice that
> Finace::Quote version 1.17 is found.
> 
> Any cluesticks to hit me with?

Does /tmp/gnucash.trace contain anything that looks related to this ? Note 
that this file gets rewritten on each GnuCash run, so you may have to 
explicitly reproduce your problem first before it contains anything useful.

Geert


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