reproducible reliability issues in 2.4.13

Derrick Hudson dsh at dman13.dyndns.org
Sat Nov 23 08:22:52 EST 2013


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 08:37:02AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
| On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:14:12AM -0500, Mike Alexander wrote:
| > That compressed length is 0x31006 according to my calculations.
| > This will trigger the bug in libxml2 that I recently changed GnuCash
| > to circumvent.  This fix came just after the last release of the
| > experimental branch so it's not yet generally available.  Instead,
| > if you expand the file with gzip, the expanded version should open
| > fine. If you then make any change, the new version will probably be
| > enough different in size to avoid the problem.
| 
| Thanks, it seems this really is the problem. I successfully opened the
| broken file after gunzipping it.
| 
| Are there versions of libxml2 (I'm using 2.9.1) or zlib (1.2.3) that
| don't have this bug?
| 
| Or is a version of your patch available for testing on the 2.4 branch?

In the Preferences you can unselect the option to use compression when
saving the file.  That would avoid experiencing this issue.

-Derrick

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