[GNC] 4.2 on Windows 10 keeps randomly crashing

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 24, 2020, at 8:18 PM, randix <butterandsalt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm running GnuCash 4.2 (Build ID: 4.2+(2020-09-26)) on Windows Pro 10, Dell
> XPS 13, and have also experienced repeated crashes which do not involve
> thousands separators. As in the case of the other poster, it has only
> occurred after upgrading to 4.2.
> 
> Most of the following may be irrelevant, but this is when I encounter it:
> 
> 1. I always enter my 4 or 5 weekly payroll transactions ahead for the coming
> month, that include the net amount to be paid to me, and then in the split
> the gross with all of the usual tax deductions.
> 
> 2. On Friday when my employer's check posts to my account, occasionally it
> will differ by a few cents from what I had originally entered.  After I
> figure out what tax deduction accounts for the variance, I open up the
> transaction in GnuCash and edit the line in the split, eg from $548.44 to
> $548.46 or whatever. /When I move to the next line in the split (eg out of
> the line I edited), GnuCash crashes. / I can do the same thing over and over
> on that transaction, and it always crashes.
> 
> 3. I finally figured out (after being beat over the head enuf times), that
> if I change the line in question that needs to be edited and then hit SAVE
> in GnuCash, eg *without moving off the line*, I can then go ahead and edit
> any other lines in that transaction and all is good.
> 
> The above situation is the only instance where I've experienced a crash,
> albeit it has occurred numerous times.
> 
> fyi and fwiw

Good information. Can you try the latest nightly from https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint and confirm that it still crashes when you do that?

Regards,
John Ralls