[GNC] How to get debug to work (saying "uncle")

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Also https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v4/C/gnucash-help/import-qif.html


David

On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 16:12 -0500, Steve Conley wrote:
> I have been trying for 5 days now to chunk Quicken and start using gnucash.
> ANY CLUES will be sincerely appreciated.
> 
> The immediate problem I am trying to solve:
> Quicken export to qif of accounts/categories "seems" to complete - but
> nothing visible in gnucash.
> Quicken export to qif of tranactions seems to work also.  (large).
> 
> *But gnucash import of even a limited qif data to 2001, gets to the final
> import stage and gnucash dies with no error.  Sometime in late QIF import -
> before matching step.*
> 
> Naturally I try to get a debug log but the ONLY way I was able to make
> anything happen was
> 
> (I pulled the startup command from the .desktop entry):
> /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=gnucash
> --file-forwarding org.gnucash.GnuCash --debug
> (and added --debug)
> 
> This does not put a trace/debug file anywhere I can find. Definitely not in
> /tmp.
> 
> I next tried specifying the logto option with /tmp/gnucash.trace or
> ~/gnucash.trace
> The trace goes neither place.
> 
> Running this:
> /usr/bin/flatpak run --command=gnucash --file-forwarding
> org.gnucash.GnuCash --debug gcashdata_3.gnucash
> 
> (I had to remove the branch and arch options that are in the desktop entry
> (which I copied from above) to even get his outputof warnings)
> 
> and then doing the qif import, results in about 40 lines of:
> (gnucash:2): Gtk-WARNING **: timestamp: Negative content width -2147483648
> .... while allocating gadget (node progress, owner GtkProgressBar)
> and
> (gnucash:2): Gtk-WARNING **: timestamp: Drawing a gadget with negative
> dimensions. did you forget to allocate a size? (node progress, owner
> GtkProgressBar)
> 
> Whether this results in the actual crash, I have no idea.
> 
> OTHER BACKGROUND ON WAY TO HERE ...
> 
> Whenever gnucash is started, I get the Gtk messages as follows:
> Gtk-Message: timestamp" Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
> Gtk-Message: timestamp" Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> Gtk-Message: timestamp" Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> 
> I tried all manner of suggestions of loading appmenu-gtk/2/3 and
> libcanberra-gtk/2/3 etcand reinstalling each. all said they were installed
> and all re-installs also completed without error.
> But did not get rid of the messge.
> 
> The machine is a core-i3 with 4GB of RAM and a large drive - so space
> should not be an issue.
> But it is an Inspiron 13 - set at 1080p resoultion.
> 
> Why GNCash ...
> I like what I see and have read the pdfs of documentation and played around
> with examples.
> (BTW, I am a 49 year - before retiring veteran of computer science with a
> PhD in Comp Sci and Electronics.  I have 6 Xubuntu Linux machines at  home
> in addition to a couple of hated Win10 achines.)
> 
> So I have 23 years of history in my Quicken data.
> I have run the Quicken Repair options, and they say all is well.
> 
> Quicken (latest) export to qxf crashes.    So I can't try gnucash import of
> qxf.
> 
> First I am running for this machine Pop!_OS versus Xubuntu as it will be my
> wife's and she is better with GUI.
> AND I have ordered a System76 Pop!_OS laptop to replace my failing (screen)
> Dell Inspiron 15.
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