[GNC] known bug in crash while editing reconciled transactions? (John Ralls)

[John Clements]

Okay, two separate things:

1) the crash itself is eminently reproducible, nice core dump and stack
trace, and I've submitted it (#797017) using GnuCash's bugzilla db. I
wasn't sure whether to categorize it as "MacOS" or "QIF importer."

2) wrt the unreconciling, I was editing the other half of the transaction
(not the reconciled entry) in the window created by an "Edit > Find ..."
operation, and there's no warning dialog associated with this action (nor
should there be, I claim). Unfortunately, I'm unable to reproduce the bug
that I reported.

3) However, I have discovered a potentially related issue, that may or may
not be a bug. Specifically, if one edits a the reconciled portion of a
transaction in a window created by an "Edit > Find..." operation, the
reconciliation flag silently changes from 'y' to 'n' on that portion of the
transaction, with no dialog. This behavior would be considered a bug, no?

Many thanks for your prompt response!

John Clements

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:00 AM <gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 07:34:35 -0800
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: [GNC] known bug in crash while editing reconciled
>         transactions?
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> > On Jan 5, 2019, at 10:23 PM, John Clements <johnbclements at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This bug might be reproducible, but I'd rather not spend the time if it's
> > already a known PR.
> >
> > The issue is this: I reconciled a bundle of transactions. Then, I opened
> an
> > "edit" window, and changed the target accounts for a number of these
> > transactions. Then I walked away from the machine. About a day later, I
> > came back, and tried to import a QIF, and it crashed. That's not a big
> > deal, programs crash. When I restarted gnucash, though, I see that those
> > transactions are now listed as being unreconciled. Mercifully, I noticed
> it
> > quickly, and their amounts had also been deducted from the last
> reconciled
> > total, so fixing it was an easy matter of re-reconciling with the same
> > closing balance as before and ticking off all of the edited transactions.
> > No damage done, at least in this case, but it would have been very
> > unpleasant to have discovered days or years later.
> >
> > So! Is this a known issue? If not, I'd be happy to try to reproduce it,
> and
> > then file a PR.
>
> If you edit reconciled transactions GnuCash marks them unreconciled. The
> warning dialog told you that it would.
>
> I don?t see any crashes in the open bugs for the QIF importer, so if the
> crash was with GnuCash 3.4 please do file a bug report.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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