[GNC] GC 3.11 crashes during "Check & Repair"

[john]

Open the file in a plain-text editor (or less on Linux) and find the 104th instance of "<trn:split>".

Splits are part of <gnc:transaction> elements.  Prices are <price> elements under <gnc:pricedb> and are all processed before any transactions, so whatever is causing the crash it isn't a price entry.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 28, 2022, at 6:10 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the references, particularly for reminding me to check the trace file.  Unfortunately, the only error messages logged in the trace file were at the beginning of the process:
> * 09:31:56 ERROR <gnc.app-utils> gnc_process_get_fd: assertion 'proc' failed
> * 09:31:56 ERROR <gnc.app-utils> gnc_detach_process: assertion 'proc && proc->pid' failed
> I am reluctant to venture into gdb, much less compiling GC myself, but perhaps these lines at the end of the trace file give a hint to which part of the XML file is giving "Check & Repair" indigestion:
> * 10:07:41  INFO <gnc.engine.scrub> [xaccAccountScrubImbalance] Finished processing split 113 of 304
> * 10:07:41  INFO <gnc.engine.scrub> [xaccAccountScrubImbalance] Start processing split 114 of 304
> Is there any way for me to identify what part of the XML file "split 114 of 304" corresponds to?
> Given that GC was started several times by mistake when price update were running on the same file, I suspect that the bad records are in the price history part of the DB.
> I can readily do without the price history if there is some way of migrating all of the transactions to the new file version.
>