Receivable Aging - report error

[Norm Scherer]

Thank you very much for the pointers Geert.

Norm

On 04/06/2016 02:57 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
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> On Tuesday 05 April 2016 23:01:19 Norm Scherer wrote:
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> > On Ubuntu 14.04 with GNUCash 2.6.1 (recently upgraded from 2.4 and
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> > this is the first time I have run this report).
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> >
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> > When I run receivable aging I get an error message 'Report error'. A
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> > trace file is left in /tmp. The only significant warning that is
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> > apparent is that it reports 'WARN <gnc.python> Unable to initialize
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> > Python module (unable to open
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> > /usr/share/gnucash/python/init.py)' while the file is there with 644
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> > permissions. At the bottom I find the error message:
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> >
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> > In unknown file:
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> > ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 1de62a0> out-of-range ...]
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> > ERROR: In procedure apply-smob/1:
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> > ERROR: Value out of range: 5
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> Hi,
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> This is a known bug in gnucash 2.6.1, which has been fixed in more 
> recent releases. Unfortunately that's what Ubuntu 14.04 has chosen as 
> base version. Please use getdeb to upgrade to at least 2.6.6 (but even 
> better to 2.6.11 or 2.6.12) as soon as you can.
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> >
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> > In the receivable account I find a couple of strange entries with
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> > Action 'Lot Link' and Memo 'Internal link between invoice and payment
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> > lots'. I have never seen those before and I did not put them in.
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> >
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> These lot links are part of the new credit note feature in gnucash 
> 2.6.x. The early versions (2.6.1-2.6.4) used it too much though. So 
> again, please upgrade to gnucash 2.6.6 or higher as soon as possible. 
> Then run Check & Repair on your A/R and A/P accounts to clean up most 
> of the lot links. More details on this issue can be found here [1].
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> Regards,
>
> Geert
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> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Business_Features_Issues
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