Price Editor
Les
lelliott5 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 18:12:58 EDT 2016
GC does operate normally under Mint 18. Just Price Editor is the
problem, sometimes taking several minutes to just close.
When I completed the fresh install of Mint, GC 2.6.12 was available and
was installed. Someone mentioned that upgrading to 2.6.13 as 2.6.12 had
known issues. So after about a week, GetDeb repo popped up with 2.6.13
so I upgraded. The issue with Price Editor was the same with either
2.6.12 or 2.6.13.
Before doing a fresh install, I was running Linux Mint 17.2 and GC
2.6.12 without any issues.
I will try creating a test data file and see what happens.
On 08/29/2016 03:23 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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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