[GNC] Error running Advanced Portfolio report

[Christopher Lam]

This was bug 792800.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 10:31 am Dino Carubia via gnucash-user, <
gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

>  Nevermind... figured it out.  Found a transaction from 2011 that was the
> culprit.  This issue did not happen in older 2.x versions of GNUCash where
> transaction was entered,  so it must be a feature of 3.x versions!  :-)
> To solve this issue, use edit/find to look for a transaction with shares
> equal to whatever GNUCash tells you in the error message.  Review results
> and look for cases where the 2nd to last transaction balance entry goes to
> 0 and then the last transaction balance entry goes negative.   In my case
> the dates were the same for the transaction so I just made the last
> transaction date one day earlier and the report started working.
> Thanks to the dev team for a clear error message!
> Regards
>     On Sunday, January 5, 2020, 05:31:03 PM EST, Dino Carubia <
> dcarubia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm using GnuCash Version 3.7.  When I run the Advanced Portfolio report,
> it processes for a bit, then it stops and I get a partial report with an
> error message: "There is an error processing the transaction 'buying .0030
> share units'. This may to be caused by a sell transaction causing a
> negative stock balance, and a subsequent buy transaction causing a zero
> balance. This leads to a division-by-zero error. It can be fixed by
> preventing negative stock balances."
> I have searched for a transaction where I am buying .0030 shares and
> cannot find it.
> Is this a known bug or a "feature" of 3.7?  Why does the order of negative
> and positive stock balances matter when processing this report?
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
> Regards
>
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