[GNC] GnuCash 3.0 Crashing on "Find Bill"

[Karen Stingel]

thanks John

I downgraded from 3 to 2.6 and that seems to have resolved things for now
you were right, Windows can only manage one gnuCash instance at a time, 
installing 2.6 removed 3.0


On 2018-04-26 15:00, John Ralls 'jralls at ceridwen.us' via 33Mail wrote:
> No, I don’t think it is. One could of course set one to install 
> somewhere besides C:\Program Files (x86), but there’s no registry 
> differentiation and I think Windows cares about that.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:43 PM, kstingel <gnucash at kstingel.email 
>> <mailto:gnucash at kstingel.email>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for those links John
>>
>> Is it possible to run both gnucash 2.6 and 3.0 on Windows 10? When I 
>> installed 3.0 the installer removed 2.6
>>
>>
>> On 2018-04-26 10:46, John Ralls 'jralls at ceridwen.us' via 33Mail wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 12:12 PM, kstingel <33mail at kstingel.com 
>>>> <mailto:33mail at kstingel.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if this error has been reported yet but after creating 
>>>> a new file and adding 4 Vendors and 3 Bills,
>>>> the "Find Bill" dialog is causing gnuCash (on Windows 10) to crash.
>>>>
>>>> This is a new chart of accounts, with two account transactions ... 
>>>> a deposit and and a payment to a vendor which
>>>> at the time had no bills posted - I was trying to create an initial 
>>>> credit balance for my first posted invoice, which
>>>> appeared to work fine
>>>>
>>>> I have completely restarted the PC, to ensure it wasn't a memory 
>>>> issue as I was referring to PDF copies of the invoices
>>>> - that didn't seem to help. So far I have only seen the crash when 
>>>> trying to find an unposted Bill so that I could post it.
>>>>
>>>> To my knowledge, the only way to access unposted Bills is via the 
>>>> "Find Bill" subroutine, so the crash issue is proving very frustrating
>>>>
>>>> EDIT switching from a file (xml) based account book to MySQL has 
>>>> allowed me to use "Find Bill" again
>>>
>>> Yeah, there are two related bugs about this:
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795031
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795040
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>