[GNC] Gnucash Crash

Thu Oct 2 05:48:11 EDT 2025

Thanks - it's now looking consistent in 5.13.   For example, I have 2 different bank service charge expense accounts - one for AUD amounts and one for CAD amounts.

If I try to charge a CAD amount direct to the AUD account (eg as part of an international transfer)  it prompts for the currency conversion but then crashes when I confirm the amount.  If I charge the CAD amount only  to a CAD Expense account - no issue.

So I did that, then tried to just transfer the total of the CAD Expense account ("rebate" the expense) to transfer it over to the AUD Expense account - same behaviour (correctly prompts for currency conversion amount, but then crashes on confirmation).

So the Expense accounts don't seem to properly support currency conversion (even though they do prompt to enter the amount in the target currency - the crash happens after confirmation of either the conversion amount or exchange rate).

I believe this is a 5.13 issue ... I reverted back to 5.12 (still Windows 11) and the currency conversion between Expense accounts is correctly handled as expected.

Regards,
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> 
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 12:35 PM
To: W R D <dullege at hotmail.com>
Cc: Gyle McCollam <gmccollam at live.com>; Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Subject: Re: [GNC] Gnucash Crash

GnuCash shouldn’t crash even if you do something wrong, never mind that there’s nothing wrong with crediting an Asset account.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Oct 1, 2025, at 16:18, W R D <dullege at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not quite related but I was seeing a repeated crash from 5.13 whenever trying to input an entry for a credit interest amount to an Asset type account.   The amount was in a foreign currency than my domicilse current - so it prompted for the exchange rate (to assign the amount to the offsetting Interest Income account) - then it would just crash.
> 
> However finally thought to change the account type to "Bank" instead of "Asset" and this fixed the problem - so not really sure if the problem is really 5.13 or it was due to the use of Asset type account (Bank or Asset should function pretty much the same?).  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+dullege=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Gyle McCollam
> Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2025 2:59 AM
> To: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: [GNC] Gnucash Crash
> 
> I'm trying to do a reconciliation, but Gnucash keeps closing.  When I go to the account and select reconcile, it opens the window, then offers to do the interest, but it is already entered.  I click on cancel and it goes back to the reconcile info.  When I try to correct the ending balance it shuts down.  I tried rebooting. But that does not help.
> 
> I'm on Windows 11 24h2 and Gnucash 5.13.
> 
> I have a lot of month end work, so I'm going to go back to 5.12 for now.
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
> Gyle McCollam
> 
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