[GNC] GC4.10 on Win10 Crashing

[David T.]

Adrien, 

Thanks for the suggestions. 

It would seem to me that Finish/Ctrl-S is pretty reduced. 

I currently have about 12 tabs open. 10 registers, the CoA, and one report (granted, it's a multicolumn report).

Saving after every edit is a remarkably annoying idea, especially given how long each save takes. I won't be doing that. 

As for a backup, I'm not sure why I'd go to a backup. The problem doesn't always happen, so I don't believe it's a problem with data corruption. I'm trying to move forward with my books, not backward. 

Nothing is holding me back from 4.11.

David

On July 19, 2022 3:57:55 PM GMT+03:00, 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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