gnucash 2.4.15 crash after setting up new aqbanking account

[John Ralls]

On May 30, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Philip Walden wrote:

> John Ralls wrote:
>> On May 28, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Philip Walden wrote:
>> 
>>> Philip Walden wrote:
>>>> Philip Walden wrote:
>>>>> My Discover card had to be re-issued with a new account number. So I tried to change the account number in aqbanking.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I did this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Tools > Online Banking Setup..
>>>>> 2. Started the AqBanking Wizard
>>>>> 3. Went to the Accounts tab
>>>>> 4. Deleted the old Discover account
>>>>> 5. Went to the Users tab
>>>>> 6. Selected the Discover Card user, pressed the Edit User button.
>>>>> 7. Went to the Bank Setting tab
>>>>> 8. Pressed Retrieve Accounts List..seemed to go through successfully.
>>>>>   The new account number came through.
>>>>> 9. Closed the Wizard
>>>>> 10. Pressed the "Forward" button..CRASH
>>>>> 
>>>>> Gnucash continues to crash everytime I try to go ahead past the Forward in order to set up the Account with the new online banking information.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I try Actions > Online Actions on my Discover account, it crashes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> All my other on-line accounts Online Actions still work!!
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried "aqbanking-cli request .. --balance" on the new Discover Card account name and successfully retried the account balance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At this point, it appears this Discover account is broken as far as Gnucash on-line transactions and I cannot set up new accounts.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any suggestions as to next steps are appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using gnucash 2.4.15 on Fedora 19.
>>>> I submitted the crash dump to redhat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101037
>>> After stack trace analysis I found that the old card number was still in the gnucash file. Gnucash was crashing when it did not find the old number in the aqbanking files.
>>> 
>>> So I caused this problem by deleting the old account in the aqbanking wizard. I guessed wrong as to how change to the new card number. I guess I should added the new account and then removed the old one later.
>>> 
>>> Hand editing the gnucash file and changing the old for new put me back in business.
>>> 
>>> This should still be a bug. Gnucash should not crash when something does not line up with the aqbanking accounts.
>> Indeed it should. Please file one, including your stack trace.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> According to Bill Nottingham, he is going I'll file the Fedora bug I submitted upstream.

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RedHat seems to emulate Apple in their bug tracker such that your bug isn't visible to the general public. If Nottingham is the Fedora packager for GnuCash and he's going to copy the bug to our BZ, that's fine as long as he remembers to do it.

Regards,
John ralls