Running balance stops working

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I deleted all the offending transactions and restarted Gnucash.  After
that it started working again.  So it probably is a very subtle bug but
how it gets tripped I have no clue.  The OS is Win 7.  I've seen this
happen once before in version 2.4 but it cleared up without a restart in
that case.  This was the first time I saw it since upgrading from 2.4 to
2.6.

I choose not to upgrade at this point because none of the bugs that have
been fixed (based on what is currently published in the change logs)
affects me.  However, if this sudden blank running balance happens to be
a side effect of a fixed bug then I would be inclined to upgrade.  Given
that it happens so rarely, though, I'd still rather hold off.

On 2018-01-07 07:50, farleykj wrote:
> You've not mentioned the operating system you are running on, which can be
> helpful if other people want to try and duplicate your problem.
> Either way, first off, I've got lots of added namespace entries for the
> securities, like ETF, ESOP, etc. They are just placeholders for
> categorizing, they don't affect the way the individual securities are
> presented, to the best of my knowledge.
> The only time I saw weird behavior in the Balance column of an account was
> when I botched up the "Smallest fraction" setting for the account, within
> the Edit Account feature. I don't know how you would set this to result in
> blanks, but maybe it's possible?
> Also, Version 2.6.3 is rather old (circa 2014?) given the current version is
> 2.6.19. There have been many bug fixes in the intervening years. Maybe if
> what you're seeing is the result of some bug it might have been addressed
> already. Wishful thinking, perhaps.