Phantom transactions appear in report

[John Ralls]

On Jan 17, 2014, at 6:01 AM, Valerio Monti <gedeonedepaperoni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> many thanks to the developers of GnuCash for this useful tool.
> 
> I recently installed GnuCash version 2.6.0 on my Windows Seven Laptop and I
> created a small set of GnuCash accounts to get acquainted with the program.
> Some days ago my pc suddenly stopped while Gnucash was open. I restarted
> the Pc and tried to open the Gnucash file: I got a warning saying that the
> file was locked and I was able to open it as a read-only file. Since
> everything seemed to work properly I saved a copy of the file, overwriting
> the old locked version. Then I was able to work normally, adding and
> deleting transactions and so. However a few days after I created a report
> of an account and some transactions that were previously deleted were
> listed in it (they appeared with no amount however, so that the balance is
> correct). I inspected directly the xml file with the text editor and there
> was no evident (to me) difference in the xml tags between the phantom
> transactions and the others, so I don't understand why they do not appear
> in the normal account tab. I tried also the tool 'Check and repair' with no
> luck.
> 
> Of course the relationship between my pc crash and this problem is just a
> conjecture of mine. Moreover I know that there automatic backups of gnucash
> files, so in case of another crash I won't open the locked file as a
> read-only but I will open one of the most recent backups and insert again
> the last transaction. I am not asking how to get rid of these transaction
> (I have inserted just a few transactions for test so I can create a new
> file from scratch). My question is: I have a gnucash file which is
> corrupted but this emerges only when you perform some operations and you
> inspect carefully the output. Is there another way to be sure that a file
> is correctly formed? I realize that a copy of my file could be necessary
> for detecting the problem so I can provide a copy to the developers.

Did the “Phantom” transactions have either only one split or none at all?
If so, it’s https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721979

Regards,
John Ralls