[GNC] GC4.10 on Win10 Crashing

[David Carlson]

I didn't notice that spellchecker changed "wrt" to with, so insert the
words "respect to".

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 9:58 AM David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I do not use ctrl-s.  Where does that shortcut fall with the bug in
> release 4.10?
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 8:16 AM Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if it applies to this issue but there were issues fixed in
>> 4.11 for crashes on Windows when closing without saving first.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 8:57 AM Adrien Monteleone <
>> adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>>
>> > First, I'd reduce the steps before trying to save as a way of narrowing
>> > down the trigger of the crash.
>> >
>> > If you normally have many tabs open, particularly reports, perhaps
>> > consider closing everything but the CoA, and then keep only the register
>> > you need at one time.
>> >
>> > Since it is so easy to do, perhaps saving after each new transaction or
>> > edit?
>> >
>> > Then try reconciling. Then save. (does that reconcile still take longer
>> > than usual?)
>> >
>> > Do you have a backup, or recall at what point your file didn't crash?
>> >
>> > Anything holding you back from 4.11? I don't see anything particularly
>> > noted for solving a crash of this type in the release notes, but perhaps
>> > programming fixes were made that *might* avoid this issue.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Adrien
>> >
>> > On 7/19/22 7:21 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > I'm running GC4.10 on Win10, and I've been running into numerous
>> crashes
>> > > in the last few days while trying to catch up on my finances.
>> > > Ironically, many of these crashes happen when I attempt to save my
>> file.
>> > >
>> > > My usual workflow when catching up is to open the pdf bank statement
>> and
>> > > work through it to catch any omitted transactions, which I then enter
>> > > into GC. After entering the transactions, I will then perform a
>> > > reconcile for the account. Upon completing the reconciliation, I save
>> my
>> > > file. Over the last two days, GnuCash has crashed several times when I
>> > > Ctrl-S at this point to save the file. (When I say crashed, I mean
>> > > GnuCash simply disappears from the task bar, and a restart gives the
>> > > usual file lock errors). This is, to say the least, frustrating.
>> > >
>> > > I have checked the trace files for the days in question, but there is
>> > > nothing that seemingly refers to the crash. The trace mostly contains
>> > > thousands of iterations of:
>> > >
>> > > * 13:32:51  WARN <qof> [gnc_numeric_to_decimal()] Rounding required
>> when
>> > > 'never round' specified.
>> > >
>> > > As for what I might be doing to cause the crashes, I really can't say,
>> > > but I wonder if there is a conflict that happens when I click "Finish"
>> > > in the reconciliation and then click Ctrl-S shortly after. I have
>> > > noticed on my machine that there is a noticeable delay in the program
>> > > between when I finish the reconciliation and when the program returns
>> > > control to my input. (There's actually noticeable delays in
>> *everything*
>> > > I do in GnuCash on my machine, which is another issue that may or may
>> > > not be related to my machine). I wonder if the software crashes
>> because
>> > > Ctrl-S interrupts the reconcile closing process, and leaves something
>> > > corrupted.
>> >
>> >
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