Gnucash upgrade not working

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Kevin Rutherford <
kevin at rutherford-software.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I've been using Gnucash 2.4.x for 6 years and been very happy with it.
> But last week I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, which brought with it an
> upgrade to Gnucash 2.6.1. This new version of Gnucash can read my
> accounts file, but for one particular account it won't let me add new
> transactions: After I enter the transaction details and press Return,
> the new transaction remains open, and I can then do nothing in that
> account until I have deleted that transaction.
>
> It does appear that I can enter transactions via the general ledger,
> but that's somewhat inconvenient. And of course I have no confidence
> that my accounts file remains uncorrupted.
>
> Do any of you have any ideas what might be wrong? And more
> importantly, how can I recover the situation so that I can use my
> accounts without losing data?
>

Greetings! I see that someone else has responded to you but unfortunately
that person did not edit the subject line of the message, so look for a
message titled "Re: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 134, Issue 6."

Unfortunately the version of GnuCash that got included in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
(aka "Trusty Tahr") was an early revision of a major release, and there are
some serious bugs that have been addressed. The current stable version is
2.6.3. I'm not certain the bugs are addressed in 2.6.3, but upgrading will
be the first thing to try.

For several options on upgrading the version you have in Ubuntu, see
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ubuntu

I think most people find the GetDeb repository the easiest way to upgrade
GnuCash, though as we have discussed on this list recently it might be a
good idea to request 2.6.3 to be included in Ubuntu's official Backports
repository. (But don't wait to upgrade because the Backports process takes
time.)


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