[GNC] Crash While Editing Transactions

[David T.]

Now having had this happen again, I can confirm that the crash occurs 
when deleting a Lot-generated gains transaction.

On 12/2/2022 10:30 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Summary: Using GnuCash 4.11 under Windows 10, I was deleting erroneous 
> Gains transactions in a Mutual Fund account when GnuCash crashed out.
>
> Details: I was entering sales of mutual fund shares and using the Lots 
> feature to calculate gains for the sales. This generally works well 
> for me, but can get messy for holdings with many small lots. This was 
> the case for the fund I was working on at the time of the crash. I had 
> entered the aggregated sale, and the Lots feature broke the sale into 
> multiple smaller splits, each with its own gain transaction, based on 
> the underlying lots. This is as it is designed (but can be extremely 
> confusing, BTW). In this case, the numbers generated by GnuCash didn't 
> match the financial institution statement, so I was removing the added 
> sales splits and gains transactions from the register when the crash 
> occurred. To expand on this: I had opened the sale entry, which had 
> received extra splits for each lot involved, deleted the extra splits 
> and adjusted the primary split to reflect the overall number of shares 
> sold, and was in process of deleting the extra gains transactions when 
> GnuCash simply disappeared.
>
> I suspect that when I attempted to delete the lot-generated gains 
> transactions, some Lot-based housekeeping caused the program to fail.
>
> I am attaching the trace file here for reference.
>
> Best,
>
> David T.
>
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