Crash with transaction report

[Alex Aycinena]

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> From: Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk>
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:37:09 +0100
> Subject: Re: Crash with transaction report.
> Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:10:31 <55767547.6000100 at att.net>  Richard Dawson
> <rcdawson at att.net>
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >I then attempted to create reports starting with the earliest
> >transaction and ending before 6/1/2014.  Guncash crashed again.
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> >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
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> >How can I trouble shoot this.  Is there any utility for verifying the
> >integrity of the file?  For repairing the file?
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> >Thanks in advance for any help.
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> saying
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>   gnc version
>   OS
>   storage (XML compressed or not, SQL, etc)
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> will help the next helper.
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> make some backups (you sound like the sort of person that might have
> them but there is no harm in going wholesale)
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> first thing to try after that
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>   switch to the accounts tab
>   Actions / Check and repair / check all
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>   make tea as you have 13 years worth of data
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> do you have any Imbalance or Orphan accounts.
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> If you do they're the place to start looking for answers.
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> Wm...
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There was a version of gnucash (I don't remember which) in which long
reports crashed. Something to do with 'guile' which is used to generate the
reports; this has now been fixed. If you are not using the latest version,
that may be your problem.

Alex