Price Editor
Les
lelliott5 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 15:33:29 EDT 2016
Tommy, if that is the case, how come the same data file on my mac works
without any issues? The data file I am now using was copied from my mac
and the old file on linux was completed removed prior to the transfer.
But there is indeed something amiss, since the test file works.
On 08/30/2016 01:35 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <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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