[GNC] flatpak 4.4 reports anomaly

Christopher Lam christopher.lck at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 21:42:52 EST 2021


Scheme backtraces are usually found at
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile but if flatpak hides them somewhere
obscure you can dump onto console via "gnucash --logto=stdout". See
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, 6:29 am Elmar, <etschme at gmail.com> wrote:

> The sequence of events was that I had been running 3.8, but somehow it
> started to fail badly, with CTD.  So I uninstalled that one and
> reinstalled the one from the Mint repository, which was 2.6.19.  All
> seemed well. I tried to reinstall 3.6 and then 3.8, then 3.11, but the
> installs failed in weird ways, which I didn't bother to document - my
> goal was to get to 4.4 anyway.  So I gave up and grabbed the flatpak of
> 4.4.  In all these versions, going up and down, the data file remained
> perfect, and once I moved the "guts" of my aqbanking folder (archived
> from version 3.8) into the correct folder for 4.4, my online banking
> (downloads of transactions) also worked perfectly, and continue to
> work.  The "guts" of the gnucash folder (the one holding the reports
> templates) when copied from the 3.8 archive into the correct 4.4 folder
> (under .var) seemed to go smoothly, and all my reports showed up fine,
> and they run fine.  I just cannot edit or delete any one of them without
> a CTD, and have to delete the settings6 folder to get them to show up
> again.  All check and repair seems to do is look for imbalances across
> the selected accounts, and it finds no problems.  It doesn't touch
> report or online templates as far as I can see. So, as I said, my only
> problem are editing my reports (running them works), and I see no way to
> edit/resave them, since I CTD as soon as I try.
>
> On 2/10/21 5:13 PM, David H wrote:
> > Elmar,
> >
> > Can I ask how you went from 2.6.19 to 4.4 flatpak?  ... For the
> > reports you may have to open each and re-save the config after the 2.8
> > update, I don't know.
> >
> > Cheers David H.
> >
>
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