[GNC] postpone reconciliation broken: ignores my changes

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 8, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 8 Feb 2019, at 17:26, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 8, 2019, at 8:28 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:31, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:> ...
>>>> | => ls -lt
>>>> total 84324
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff   221184  8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff    95629  8 Feb 00:04 MDH.gnucash.20190208000345.log
>>>> -rw-------  2 michaelhendry  staff        0  8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.0.82823.LNK
>>>> -rw-------  2 michaelhendry  staff        0  8 Feb 00:03 MDH.gnucash.LCK
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff      809  8 Feb 00:01 MDH.gnucash.20190207202353.log
>>>> -rwx------  2 michaelhendry  staff  1136826  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff      853  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190207202200.log
>>>> -rwx------  2 michaelhendry  staff  1136826  7 Feb 20:23 MDH.gnucash.20190208000443.gnucash
>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 michaelhendry  staff    23810  7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207185926.log
>>>> -rwx------  1 michaelhendry  staff  1136752  7 Feb 20:22 MDH.gnucash.20190207202348.gnucash
>>>> -rwx------  1 michaelhendry  staff  1136766  7 Feb 18:59 MDH.gnucash.20190207202153.gnucash
>>>> 
>>>> There is no corresponding crash report, so I conclude that GC has failed to tidy up properly before closing.
>>> 
>>> That looks odd.  Notice that the last successful save was 7 Feb 20:23.
>>> Then it appears that GC was started at 8 Feb 00:03, a log file of 95k
> 
> Actually, the first file was modified on 8th Feb at 00:01, followed by the lock file at 00:03.
> 
> The MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc file isn’t a text file like the others, so I suspect that it’s part of the compression process that eventually results in a new MDH.gnucash file.
> 
>>> bytes was created (which seems large) but the results of that work
>>> were not saved.  I don't know, but it may be that the file
>>> MDH.gnucash.tmp-ea6yhc is the result of the first half of the save
>>> before it is compressed and the files renamed but I don't know.  How
>>> you could get a log file that large in one minute I don't know.  I see
>>> you have posted some of the contents and suggested they don't look
>>> right.
>> 
>> Scheduled transactions is how he could get 95K of log file in milliseconds. 
>> 
>> Good eye, noticing the temp file: The save failed for some reason and left GnuCash in a state where it quit without removing the lock. It's too bad that we overwrite trace files on MacOS. It would be useful to see if anything got logged about the save failing.
>> 
>> I think it's time to open a bug on this.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> Thanks, John.
> 
> Is it up to me to initiate this? 

It works best if you do, but if you prefer not to I'll do it for you with the information in this thread.

Regards,
John Ralls