[GNC] GC Crash Report

[Michael Hendry]

> On 28 Jul 2019, at 13:29, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Just curious,
> 
> Did you transfer all of the transactions in that asset account to the same liability account? (1:1 transfer)

There were several asset accounts, each one of which was transferred on a 1 to 1 basis to a Liability account of the same name.

> 
> If so, you could have just deleted the asset account and GnuCash would have asked you where you wanted to move the transactions. (of course, the method you chose should work as well without a crash)

I tried that, but I was only offered Asset accounts as options for the move.

> 
> I’m not 100% certain, but I think the devs would prefer crashes be reported on Bugzilla. You can upload your crash report there.

I’ll see if I can reproduce it.

> 
> Another thing that *might* be of use, do you have a backup copy where you could repeat the steps that led to the crash and reliably make it crash again?

This was an experimental file, copied from the definitive file.

I’ve just made a fresh copy from the latter, and will try to repeat the process. Unfortunately, I may not do it in precisely the same way as I did it last time!

Michael

> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Jul 28, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Michael Hendry <hendry.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had just completed the editing of a number of transactions, transferring them from an asset account to a liability account by opening the asset account and changing each one in turn until the asset account was empty.
>> 
>> I then deleted the (now empty) asset account, without closing the tab relating to the account. I’m not sure whether I clicked on the tab to check whether it was indeed empty, or whether it happened as I deleted the account.
>> 
>> The report on the crash is here:
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zczsz5xaw13djyn/GC-Crash-2019-07-27.txt?dl=0
>> 
>> I’m running GC 3.5 on iMac with Mac OS X High Sierra.
>> 
>> Michael
> 
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