[GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 12/9/18 8:27 AM, Arnie Reeves via gnucash-user wrote:
> Thank you for your response David, suggesting “other” program updates on my Windows 10 set up, including a recent upgrade to MS Office 2019 which includes Access, may be responsible for causing my GNUCash 2.6.19 to crash every time I select a report. That being the only suggestion (so far), I believe my only option is to reinstall the GNUCash program, and keep fingers crossed. I understand any reinstallation will be able to use the 11 months existing data without any further actions from me.(?). For a simple home accounts use, please could some-one explain the differences of the available versions – such as 2.6.19 (Currently used and previously found fine) and 3.3 etc. Which is best, and bug free, for my simple home accounts.
> Arnie


It's hard to say what is best for someone else.  The main differences 
are the added features and bug fixes that later versions show.  I tend 
to keep up with the latest version available -- but I don't do stock 
quotes and most of my JVs are hand entered.  I do pull down a QFX file 
from my credit card and from my bank to reduce my typing load a bit.  
Nothing fancy and right now only for my personal finances.  Oh, I do 
have a few scheduled transactions (JVs -- Journal Vouchers -- 
essentially the list of splits that make up a transaction in GNC).

Bug free?  As a software developer I can assure you that there is no 
such thing.  The best you can achieve is a set of bugs with which you 
can still utilize the software for your basic needs. So, with my basic 
needs, I'm not seeing the problems others are reporting.  But, I do tend 
to grab the latest patches anyway. Some will say that I'm on the 
bleeding edge.  So far the cuts have not been serious -- and the folks 
here are a great bunch to provide clues when I'm obviously clueless!

 From your previous tracefile, I'm curious regarding the NULL account 
comments.  At this point I'm "clueless" but wondering if this means you 
have an account with an empty name or if some transaction(s) somewhere 
have an account with no name -- maybe point to a non-existent account.  
Shouldn't happen but....

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> From: karndale at blueyonder.co.uk <karndale at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Sent: 08 December 2018 21:37
> To: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] GNU crashes when any Report is selected
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> Only change other than routine updates was an upgrade from MS Office 2010 to Office 2019. This of course includes Access.
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> Sent from my iPhone.
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> On 8 Dec 2018, at 9:25 pm, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> > wrote:
> I did forget to mention that I use Gnucash mostly in Ubuntu 16.04 with occasional forays into Windows 7 and rare forays into Windows 10..
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> David C .
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> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 3:21 PM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> Arnie,
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> Did you get a Windows update or have any other significant change to your computer?
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> Release 2.6.19 itself has not changed, and various 2.6.x releases are still working for me.
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> David C
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> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 12:10 PM Arnie Reeves via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>  wrote:
> I use Windows 10 with GNUCash 2.6.19 for home accounting. After 11 months of
> perfect use, all reports suddenly fail to open and selecting any report,
> including samples or one of my many customised reports (new one for each
> month) causes the program to crash. Anyone aware of a fix, or maybe an
> upgrade to version 3.3 will solve the problem? I've resisted the update due
> to reading many reports of problems with 3.3 and so far 2.2.19 has been
> fine. All reports worked fine at last month's home accounting. I only update
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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 07:55, Bill Manuel <BillsGnu at q.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 07:55, Bill Manuel <BillsGnu at q.com> wrote:
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> Thanks, Arnie.
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