[GNC] Missing 2nd entry

[davidcousens49 at gmail.com]

Fred,

If you go to the Accounts tab in the main window can you see either an Orphan or
Imbalance account with a non-zero balance. The transaction creation process and
the importer have never allowed you to create a transaction in GnuCash which is
unbalanced. I just tested it and tried to force creating an unbalanced
transaction in 4.10 (linux Mint 20.3) and you cannot do it. It automatically
creates the Imbalance account entry. Not sure if the datafile reading mechanism
enforces that condition when data is being read into GnuCash from a file or
database and a transaction record had been corrupted though. Have you manually
edited the datafile by any chance? Can you delete the transaction and if
necessary recreate it in balanced form?

David Cousens


On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 21:58 -0700, Fred Tydeman wrote:
> I just found a transaction that is not a double entry.
> It is just a single entry.  Not sure how that happened.
> When I click on Split to see the other side of the entry,
> there is nothing.  Clicking on Jump does nothing.
> 
> With that strange transaction as the current entry:
> Clicking on Actions->Check&Repair->This transaction
> appears to do nothing.  Same for All transactions.
> 
> With all account tabs closed (so only the top level Accounts shows):
> Clicking on Actions->Check&Repair->Check&repair all
> runs for a minute or two and does not fix that entry, nor
> make a new account for Unbalanced or similar.
> 
> I wonder if this unusual transaction is the cause of the
> Trial Balance report crashing and giving me a traceback.
> Equity Statement report also crashes with a similar traceback.
> 
> I am running GnuCash 4.10+(2022-03-26) on Linux.
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