Price Editor

[Tommy Trussell]

I suspect you have some unusual or malformed data in the price information
in your GnuCash data file.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Les <lelliott5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I created a new test file, populated a few items in security editor
> and added them to price editor. Opened price editor and it works
> perfectly.  I am completely confused.
>
> 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> 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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