Price Editor

[Tommy Trussell]

OK now I am confused. Does GnuCash operate normally under Mint 18 or does
it hang when using the price editor? Or are you saying it operates normally
OTHERWISE?

Is your new installation of Linux Mint Mate 18 running the same version of
GnuCash and opening the same data file as the old version of Mint? (Earlier
in the thread I believe you mentioned several different versions of
GnuCash, but I don't know if you upgraded the older machine.) I remember
something about GnuCash operating normally on the older version of Mint,
but now I am not sure what that means.

Here's another thing to try -- create a new test data file and see if the
price editor hangs when editing price data in a new file without much in
it.



On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions Tommy.  I used your suggestions and purged  and
> then reinstalled GC, but obtained the very same result with regard to Price
> Editor.  I have an exact copy of GC on my mac and copied it to the Linux
> system, opened the file and received the very same issue with Price
> Editor.
>
> I am at a complete loss.  I have a fresh install of Linux Mint Mate 18,
> which appears to operate normally.  The only issue I have is just with
> Price Editor (which when I look at the GC process with Price Editor open,
> the process is at 100% of cpu.  Perhaps I will just live with the problem
> <sigh>.
>
> Les
>
> On 08/28/2016 11:13 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
> See my response below. I am bottom posting. My apologies for not
> reordering the thread to make it readable.
>
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A follow up to previous entries:  I booted Linux Mint to a live cd and
>> ran badblocks.  After almost 2 hours, (SDA is 1TB) the system detected
>> zero bad blocks.  When I ran hdparm, there was a message that sda3 does
>> not start on the correct sector.  Not sure what that means.  Perhaps I
>> will create a live cd with gparted and attempt to correct this issue.
>> Since the whole system seems to run properly (except for Price Editor in
>> GC) I have my doubts that this will have any impact on GC.
>>
>> Wiser minds feel free to correct my assumptions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>> On 08/26/2016 10:37 AM, Michael via gnucash-user wrote:
>> > Les, I have Mint 18 MATE and gnucash 2.6.13.  As far as I know, I am
>> > not seeing the problem you report.  However, I only used Price Editor
>> > briefly to verify the bug I had experienced was fixed.  To update
>> > gnucash, I used a process that was described on this list a few weeks
>> > ago, before getdeb was updated.  I don't remember the specific site
>> > used but it involved gnucash, wiki and ubuntu. Whether this build is
>> > somewhat different, or I just haven't used Price Editor enough to see
>> > the problem you are having, I can't say.  Sorry I can't be more
>> > specific.  Mike
>> >
>> >
>> > On 08/24/2016 02:01 PM, Les wrote:
>> >> I have finally updated GC to 2.6.13 (I waited for the repo to update).
>> >> However, I still have issues with Price Editor. It opens as expected
>> and
>> >> I can access various parts as well. However when I click close it
>> >> hangs.  I checked system monitor in Linux Mint and the GC process was
>> at
>> >> 100%.  It took maybe 2 minutes to finally close.
>> >>
>> >> For what its worth, I ran GC 2.6.12 without issues under Linux Mint
>> >> 17.2.
>> >>
>> >> Suggestions?  Is this a bug? Anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
>
>
> I haven't seen this problem (crashing price editor), though I very rarely
> use the price editor. I doubt you're seeing disk corruption or anything
> like that.
>
> I think it's more likely you have a glitchy installation of GnuCash, some
> unusual corruption in your data file, or an incompatibility with Mint.
> (GetDeb is intended as a repository for Ubuntu, so it's possible the
> GnuCash packages in GetDeb depend upon a library that differs in Mint.)
>
> I suggest purging and reinstalling GnuCash. Especially if you upgraded
> your Mint system from an older to a newer version -- there may possibly be
> some cruft left over from an earlier installation that didn't upgrade
> correctly. I don't know if you can purge packages using the Mint package
> manager, but you CAN do this using Synaptic or the terminal.
>
> (Oh, and even though purging the packages will not touch your data files
> at all, you ought to check your data backups first. Just in case something
> goes wrong. Or has already gone wrong.)
>
> To purge and reinstall GnuCash, open a terminal and execute these two
> commands (I'm assuming you might have python-gnucash installed; if not,
> leave that one off. Similarly, if you have gnucash-dbg installed, add it to
> the commands below):
>
> $ sudo apt-get purge gnucash gnucash-common python-gnucash
>
> $ sudo apt-get install gnucash gnucash-common python-gnucash
>
>
>
>
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