Reports crash Gnucash

David Carlson david.carlson.417 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 21:23:55 EST 2018


I forgot to mention that progress bar at the bottom of the main window.
That also shows the progress of the file save activity.

David C

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:04 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> The progress bar for reports started with the main window displayed is at
> the bottom right of that window.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
> > On Feb 10, 2018, at 5:51 PM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > doncram,
> >
> > Actually, if you look carefully at the bottom of the splash screen (if
> you
> > have not disabled it) when the program is loading, there is a message
> > there. That will show when processing reports that were left open when
> the
> > file was last closed.
> >
> > As for opening new reports, I cannot comment as I am using release 2.6.18
> >
> > David C
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:17 PM, doncram <doncram at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> If there's no functional bug, then there's a different bug:  what is
> >> displayed should be changed to show "report processing...please allow a
> few
> >> minutes" or something like that.  Surely it should not take seven years
> to
> >> change what a message states.  --doncram
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Ken Pyzik <pyz01 at cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Stan -- I am using 2.6.19 on 64-bit Windows 10.  While the reporting
> >> module
> >>> is indeed very slow (bug report already out there was this) and while
> it
> >>> does say "Not Responding", eventually the report does come up (after
> >> about
> >>> 60-90 seconds).
> >>>
> >>> I agree that it may be way too long -- but it does technically work.
> My
> >>> belief is that it should work for you if given enough time.
> >>>
> >>> That all being said -- for almost of us -- this is still considered a
> bug
> >>> --
> >>> but it does work -- eventually.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: gnucash-user [mailto:gnucash-user-bounces+pyz01=
> >> cox.net at gnucash.org]
> >>> On Behalf Of Stan Brown
> >>> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 7:38 AM
> >>> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> >>> Subject: Reports crash Gnucash
> >>>
> >>> MODERATORS -- The entire list doesn't need to see this, but I'd
> >> appreciate
> >>> if you'd pass this on to the developers.
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to like Gnucash, I really did, but it crashes e=whenever I try
> >> to
> >>> generate any report from any Gnucash file.
> >>>
> >>> I installed Gnucash 2.6.19 (from link at Gnucash.org) on my 64-bit
> >> Windows
> >>> 7
> >>> laptop and 64-bit Windows 8 laptop and started working my way through
> the
> >>> tutorial. When I made a scheduled transaction and couldn't see it in
> the
> >>> ledger, I attempted to display the report of scheduled transactions.
> Got
> >>> only a blank window, and when I clicked Close the title bar showed "not
> >>> responding". When I clicked the red x in the upper right corner to
> close
> >>> the
> >>> window, I got "Gnucash has stopped working".
> >>> The same thing happened with every report I tried (maybe ten of them,
> min
> >>> various categories), and whether I had reports opening in a separate
> >> window
> >>> or not. This happens on both my laptops.
> >>>
> >>> I looked in the FAQ Wiki
> >>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_cannot_get_any_
> >>> report_to_display_not_
> >>> even_the_sample_reports._All_that_displays_is_an_empty_tab.
> >>> and found a recommendation to change Internet options. That didn't
> help.
> >>>
> >>> I followed the link from the FAQ to the bug report
> >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645273
> >>> which was entered SEVEN YEARS AGO. There were various suggestions
> related
> >>> to
> >>> Internet Explorer, which I tried, but as other folks found, those
> >>> suggestions did not help.
> >>>
> >>> I then Googled the gnucash-user archive and found nothing new, just
> >>> rehashes
> >>> of the same problem.
> >>>
> >>> HTML files and trace files were generated in my temp folder, but
> there's
> >> no
> >>> point in sending them since many others have done that already, yet the
> >> bug
> >>> remains unfixed.
> >>>
> >>> I've already wasted about six hours trying unsuccessfully to work
> around
> >>> the
> >>> bug, and several times that on the tutorial. I wanted to like Gnucash,
> >> and
> >>> I
> >>> know the software is free, but without the ability to produce any
> reports
> >>> it's worth even less than I paid for it.
> >>>
> >>> Extremely disappointing.
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