Crash with transaction report.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Richard Dawson <rcdawson at att.net> writes:

> I have been maintaining my accounts on gnucash since 2002.  Recently I
> came across a balancing error in one account.  suspecting that I had
> accidentally deleted or altered a transaction,  I decided to create
> transaction reports from the current file and from an earlier backup
> so I could compare them transaction by transaction.
>
> When I attempted to run a transaction report for the entire history, I
> got a message in the transaction report window that an error had
> occurred, and then gnucash ceased to run.  I restarted gnucash and it
> opened with the file seemingly none-the worse for the experience.
>
> Thinking that perhaps a single transaction was somehow corrupted,
> reran the report with only the last month, then the last two months,
> etc, until the problem recurred.  I was able to print out reports or
> the period 6/1/2014 - today.  If I went back further, gnucash crashed
> again.
>
> I then attempted to create reports starting with the earliest
> transaction and ending before 6/1/2014.  Guncash crashed again.
>
> Then I tried incremental reports starting at the beginning:  these
> were the results
> report period                     Result
> 1/1/2002-12/31/2002            OK
> 1/1/2003-12/31/2003            OK
> 1/1/2002-12/31/2003            Crash
> 6/1/2002-5/31/2003              Crash
>
> How can I trouble shoot this.  Is there any utility for verifying the
> integrity of the file?  For repairing the file?

What version of GnuCash?
What OS/Distro?
And what is printed on the console and/or in the GnuCash Trace File?
  see: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile

> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Richard

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-derek

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