[GNC] How to troubleshot a "Report error"

[Christopher Lam]

Nice to hear that it's fixable. The pricedb entries have unreasonable
precision and was fixed a few months ago, but existing entries remain. This
is still a worthwhile bug to fix.

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 14:43, Lipp F. <flipp31a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>
> Your suggestion about verifying pricedb was invaluable. I cannot thank you
> enough.
>
> I was able to identify the security responsable by disabling sub-accounts,
> one by one, until I was left with only the one generation the error. I have
> checked  pricedb for that specific security and I've noticed that prices
> prior to Jul 9 are recorded fractional (as 273 + 342939880122/353546268167)
> but displayed correctly (as 273.97). So, it was enough to edit the entry
> and re-enter the correct decimal value and everything works fine.
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 11:37 PM Christopher Lam <
> christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lipp
>> The usual approach is to file a bug in bugs.gnucash.org
>> Include the exact version used (3.10?)
>> Also you are using pricedb - it would be worth reviewing the pricedb
>> entries around 9th July and add this to the bug report.
>> C
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 14:28, Lipp F. <flipp31a at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wondering if anyone can help. I am trying to run the "Net Worth
>>> Linechart"
>>> report only for brokerage accounts. It works fine form Jul 9, 2019 to
>>> date
>>> but any earlier date than Jul 9 throws the error.
>>>
>>> On Jul 9 I only have two monthly divident payments, recorded the same way
>>> as ever.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Report error
>>> > An error occurred while running the report.
>>> >           19 (eval-string "(gnc:report-run 8)" #<undefined>)
>>> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> >    2312:4 18 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 13576dc0 at ice-9/ev…>)
>>> > In ice-9/eval-string.scm:
>>> >      38:6 17 (read-and-eval #<input: string 134c5f50> #:lang _)
>>> > In report.scm:
>>> >     776:4 16 (gnc:report-run _)
>>> > In c-interface.scm:
>>> >     64:23 15 (gnc:backtrace-if-exception _ . _)
>>> >      22:4 14 (gnc:call-with-error-handling _ _)
>>> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>>> >     829:9 13 (catch #t #<procedure 134eb558 at c-interface.scm:23:6…>
>>> …)
>>> > In c-interface.scm:
>>> >     26:40 12 (_)
>>> > In report.scm:
>>> >    780:24 11 (_)
>>> >    756:25 10 (gnc:report-render-html #<<report> type: d8b63264186b1…>
>>> …)
>>> > In net-charts.scm:
>>> >    326:30  9 (net-renderer #<<report> type: d8b63264186b11e19038001…>
>>> …)
>>> >     247:6  8 (process-datelist _ _ _)
>>> > In commodity-utilities.scm:
>>> >    927:17  7 (gnc:sum-collector-commodity #<procedure f7043e0 at re…>
>>> …)
>>> > In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>>> >    592:29  6 (map1 (#<<gnc-monetary> commodity: #<swig-pointer gn…> …))
>>> >    592:29  5 (map1 (#<<gnc-monetary> commodity: #<swig-pointer gn…> …))
>>> >    592:29  4 (map1 (#<<gnc-monetary> commodity: #<swig-pointer gn…> …))
>>> >    592:17  3 (map1 (#<<gnc-monetary> commodity: #<swig-pointer gn…> …))
>>> > In commodity-utilities.scm:
>>> >    930:46  2 (_ #<<gnc-monetary> commodity: #<swig-pointer gnc_commo…>)
>>> >    777:12  1 (gnc:exchange-by-pricedb-nearest _ #<swig-pointer gnc_…>
>>> …)
>>> > In unknown file:
>>> >            0 (gnc-pricedb-convert-balance-nearest-price-t64 #<swig-…>
>>> …)
>>> > Throw to key `numerical-overflow' with args `("/" "Numerical overflow"
>>> #f
>>> > #f)'.
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