[GNC] Crash attempting to import transactions from CSV on W10

[A Harvey]

Thanks for your responses.

To David Carlson: I have taken advantage of the GNC feature that allows me
to save the format for the CSV files.  I have one for each institution that
I import from and haven't changed them, so I don't think it is a date
format problem.  Also, thanks for the info on the nightly builds.  I
suspected they are work in progress.

To David H.:  GNC 4.1 works fine for me, and as you advise I will stick
with that until the next release..  I often try the nightly builds as I
sometimes find changes that are useful to me.  Just thought I should
mention that I had the problem with the more recent ones.

To John Ralls: I will add it to the bug reports in case it may turn out to
be helpful to the developers.

Thanks again,
-Arthur

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:21 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Arthur,
>
> This really isn't the right place. Please file a bug report (
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I_think_I_found_a_bug._How_do_I_report_it.3F).
> It's way too easy for reports on the mailing list to get lost. Do keep in
> mind that GnuCash is developed and maintained entirely by a very few
> volunteers and while we like to know about every crasher (especially new
> ones in nightly builds) we have nowhere near enough time to respond in
> detail to every report.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> > On Sep 1, 2020, at 7:40 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Arthur,
> >
> > You sent it to the right place :-)
> >
> > 4.1 is the current version, what exactly do you mean by maintenance
> builds
> > ? If you mean nightly builds yeah expect things to get buggered up
> > sometimes so if it's a problem for you I  suggest you go back to the
> stable
> > release and stay there.
> >
> > Cheers David H
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 12:00, A Harvey <gah1178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I sent the forwarded message below about a dozen days ago but have
> received
> >> no comments.  I know everyone is busy and it may take some time for
> anyone
> >> to reply.  In the interim, I would like to ask two quick meta-questions
> if
> >> I may:
> >>
> >> 1) Did I send this message to the wrong list and, if so, to where
> should I
> >> send it?
> >>
> >> 2) Should I expect that the maintenance builds are likely to break
> parts of
> >> Gnucash that previously worked?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Arthur
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >> From: A Harvey <gah1178 at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 5:01 PM
> >> Subject: Crash attempting to import transactions from CSV on W10
> >> To: gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm getting a crash when I try to import transactions from a CSV and
> >> am hoping someone can help.  Here are the gory details.
> >>
> >> OS is Windows 10.
> >> Gnucash version gnucash-4.1-2020-08-01-git-4.1-12-g12ab85fa6+   works
> fine.
> >> All subsequent versions through ...08-15... show the following behavior:
> >> Upon attempting to import transactions from a CSV, the import assistant
> >> works correctly up to the page where it should show the results of the
> >> import mapping and allow certain fields to be modified.  When I click on
> >> NEXT to get to that page, the application crashes.
> >>
> >> I ran a trace with --debug and --extra for both the working and
> non-working
> >> versions and compared them.  Near the end of the miles of output, the
> >> non-working version trace file contained the following:
> >> .
> >> .
> >> * 16:15:16  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]
> baln=0/1
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_trans_props] User
> >> warning: Date could not be understood.
> >> Value can't be parsed into a date using the selected date format.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_trans_props] User
> >> warning: Date could not be understood.
> >> Value can't be parsed into a date using the selected date format.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_split_props] User
> >> warning: Deposit could not be understood.
> >> Value doesn't appear to contain a valid number.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_trans_props] User
> >> warning: Date could not be understood.
> >> Value can't be parsed into a date using the selected date format.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_split_props] User
> >> warning: Deposit could not be understood.
> >> Value doesn't appear to contain a valid number.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_trans_props] User
> >> warning: Date could not be understood.
> >> Value can't be parsed into a date using the selected date format.
> >> * 16:15:58  INFO <gnc.import> [GncTxImport::update_pre_split_props] User
> >> warning: Deposit could not be understood.
> >> Value doesn't appear to contain a valid number.
> >> * 16:16:28  INFO <qof.engine> [qof_event_generate_internal] id=6
> >> hi=1345f788 han=66630812 data=00000000
> >> * 16:16:28  INFO <qof.engine> [qof_event_generate_internal] id=4
> >> hi=14016920 han=66674c38 data=00000000
> >> .
> >> .
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -Arthur
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