[GNC] flatpak 4.4 reports anomaly

[Geert Janssens]

Op donderdag 11 februari 2021 03:42:52 CET schreef Christopher Lam:
> 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
> 

The default trace file location on flatpak doesn't work indeed. By default the 
trace file will be written in /tmp and that folder is treated special by 
flatpak. The details aren't clear to me yet, but it's indeed safer to  add the 
--logto option. You are free to use a file name there (for example "$HOME/
gnucash.trace") or stdout.

Note for completeness to start the flatpak edition of gnucash you'll probably 
have to  invoke something more like this:
flatpak run org.GnuCash.gnucash --logto="path-to-log-to-or-stdout"

Regards,

Geert

> 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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