[GNC] Fw: Help - Re: Gnucash Crash when Paying invoices
J. Richard Herbert
rherbert at caid.ca
Mon Jul 6 18:35:37 EDT 2026
Hi,
Gnucash in Opensuse Tumbleweed src-oss is still 5.13 with the inability
to pay invoices due to Gnucash crashing. The recommendation I received
was (and thank you):
"I suspect this is a known issue introduced in 5.13. To confirm you
may revert to 5.12 or update to a more recent version."
I asked where I could get 5.12 for openSUSE Tumbleweed. I have not seen
a response (I might have missed it). I checked out Gnucash downloads and
there is no downloadable version for openSUSE Tumbleweed. I need to
finish off books for 2025-26 and file.
Where can I get an older (5.12) or newer (5.15) version of Gnucash with
dependancies for openSUSE Tumbleweed?
Thanks in advance,
Richard
Richard G. Herbert
On 6/17/26 15:34, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>
> Thank you for the reply and likely cause.
>
> I updated my system two days ago (sudo zypper dup) and still have the
> problem. The Gnucash version I have, which is the version in the
> current openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss repository, is 5.13-3.4 (V. 5.13;
> Build ID 5.13+(2025-09-27); Finance::Quote). Do you have a suggestion
> for where to get a newer update compatible with the latest update of
> openSUSE Tumbleweed?
>
> My current OS version of software is:
>
> openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20260612
> KDE Plasma v: 6.6.5
> KDE Frameworks v: 6.26.0
> Qt v: 6.11.1
> Kernel v: 7.0.12-1-default (64 bit)
> Graphics Platform: X11
>
> For those who asked for details on when this happens -- Any time a
> payment is attempted for a posted invoice, regardless of how that
> payment is entered.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Richard
>
> On 6/16/26 12:00, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:31:18 -0700
>> From: Sherlock<sh025622 at gmail.com>
>> To:gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Fw: Help - Re: Gnucash Crash when Paying invoices
>> Message-ID:<110pgdm$h5b$1 at ciao.gmane.io>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> I suspect this is a known issue introduced in 5.13. To confirm you may
>> revert to 5.12 or update to a more recent version.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sherlock
>>
>> On 6/14/26 7:48 PM, Liz wrote:
>>> I am forwarding this to the list, it having gone to the wrong addresses.
>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org is the correct address.
>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:29:51 -0400
>>> From: "J. Richard Herbert"<rherbert at caid.ca>
>>> To:gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org,gnucash-user-owner at gnucash.org
>>> Subject: Help - Re: Gnucash Crash when Paying invoices
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> My bookkeeping is light, so I waited for a bit and updated my OpenSuse
>>> Tumbleweed today. then went to gnucash and have the same problem where
>>> trying to pay invoices results in a crash. According to today?s update
>>> I am on 5.13-3.4.
>>>
>>> What can I do to move through this problem? Do you already have a
>>> solution?
>>>
>>> Please, II do need help as I have years of bookkeeping in Gnucash.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> Dr. J. Richard G. HerbertB. SC., D.V.M.
>>>
>>> Chief Executive Officer
>>> Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments
>>> A Not-for-profit Charitable NGO
>>> Cell: 807-629-4490? ? ?Fax: 1-866-722-5251
>>> rherbert at caid.ca www.caid.ca
>>>
>>> /*?My hours of work may be different from yours ? you are not obligated
>>> to reply to my email outside your normal work hours."*/
>>>
>>> _Confidentiality Warning:_ Contents of this email and attached
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>>> this email, please delete this email and documents attached to it from
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>>>
>>> On 6/14/26 13:26, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>>>> Hi again,
>>>>
>>>> My bookkeeping is light, so I waited for a bit and updated my
>>>> OpenSuse Tumbleweed today. then went to gnucash and have the same
>>>> problem where trying to pay invoices results in a crash. According to
>>>> today?s update I am on 5.13-3.4.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to move through this problem? Do you already have a
>>>> solution?
>>>>
>>>> Please, II do need help as I have years of bookkeeping in Gnucash.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /*?My hours of work may be different from yours ? you are not
>>>> obligated to reply to my email outside your normal work hours."*/
>>>>
>>>> _Confidentiality Warning:_ Contents of this email and attached
>>>> documents are confidential. If you are not an intended recipient of
>>>> this email, please delete this email and documents attached to it
>>>> from your email application.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/28/26 21:07, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The CAID_GNU_25-26.gnucash file I am using was created on another of
>>>>> my computers that has a different username. Can this be the cause of
>>>>> the build-id traoubles seen in the crash report? If so, how to I fix
>>>>> the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for consideration on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/26/26 1:54 AM, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>>>>>> I have also tried:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. To return to an earlier save point to then begin with not
>>>>>> duplicating the bill. I was able to get this to work once but in
>>>>>> the multiple attempts to pay other vendor bills, I have failed.
>>>>>> I do not know if I did something different for the one time that
>>>>>> payment worked.
>>>>>> 2. To manually put the payment into Acc Payable and then right
>>>>>> click on it to choose Assign Payment. Again crash
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/25/26 17:18, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>>>>>>> I should point at that:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. In Preferences -> Accounts under Default Currency, I have
>>>>>>> toggled Choose and Chosen Canadian
>>>>>>> 2. I did not have a problem paying a a posted invoice with a
>>>>>>> previously entered Vendor
>>>>>>> 3. I entered a new Vendor and the currency is Canadian
>>>>>>> 4. I then duplicated an invoice from a similar vendor to save time
>>>>>>> setting the invoice... but changed the vendor name when doing
>>>>>>> so. 5. I alter amounts and back dated when I posted
>>>>>>> 6. Then I could not pay the invoice due to crashing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3/25/26 17:04, J. Richard Herbert wrote:
>>>>>>>> Crash when paying posted invoices:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I fell behind in bookkeeping and started catching up today. I
>>>>>>>> cannot pay posted invoices. When I click to have the payment
>>>>>>>> accepted Gnucash crashes. I have tried through vendors to process
>>>>>>>> a payment, from the posted invoice, and from the pop-up that
>>>>>>>> opens to process a payment when I start up gnucash. I updated the
>>>>>>>> computer today to see if an update would help (zypper dup), but
>>>>>>>> have the same problem.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am working in OpenSuse Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma (see
>>>>>>>> attached) operating in Btrfs and file storage in ext4. The
>>>>>>>> Gnucash version is 5.13 (see attached). Although, the Gnucash
>>>>>>>> version was updated when the computer updated. The last time I
>>>>>>>> can be certain Gnucash worked was July 2025 (I fell far behind
>>>>>>>> with bookkeeping). I have also attached the crash report.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When I have to scrub, I bring forward the ~/.local/share/gnucash
>>>>>>>> directory with its contents when I need to do a reinstall (which
>>>>>>>> is not the issue here).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please, help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Richard
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Richard Herbert
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> _Confidentiality Warning:_ Contents of this email and attached
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:44:37 -0400
>> From: "Kalpesh Patel"<kalpesh.patel at usa.net>
>> To:<gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Other software
>> Message-ID:<005f01dcfcff$66919830$33b4c890$@usa.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> IMHO, an acceptable email might be a "New version of XYZ released. See ABC site for details." should be acceptable as a broadcast caveated that it is part of GNUCASH, uses first-person by-products of gnucash, or refers to a product that facilitates a niche issue related to gnucash.
>>
>> I definitely would not want this board - named as gnucash-users - should be a used for anything other than gnucash discussion.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adrien Monteleone<adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2026 12:39 PM
>> To:gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Other software
>>
>> Tough call.
>>
>> Wm & Patrick both have valid points for sure.
>>
>> I too am generally fine with announcements, but ongoing discussion could be a problem.
>>
>> If only open source projects are allowed, I could see that as reasonable, with the caveat that topics or discussion outside of how this 3rd party project is used *with GnuCash* are out of scope.
>>
>> They shouldn't leach or hi-jack this list as a substitute for independent support and should themselves urge users to partake of their own offered channels.
>>
>> I'm also fine if you bar all such topics/announcements, at least from the creators.
>>
>> If regular users alert someone in a relevant reply to a particular resource, that's a different matter. (such as in reply to a feature request, someone posts a link to one of these projects that already fits the bill. Any discussion thereof is in a limited context and should not
>> metastasize.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
>>
>> On 6/14/26 12:09 AM, Liz wrote:
>>> I have had another request for publication of information regarding
>>> other software which could be used in conjunction with Gnucash.
>>>
>>> So far this is on hold.
>>>
>>> Following the previous use of this list to advertise other software I
>>> am considering a total ban so there would be no leniency according to
>>> licence eg GPL passes and proprietary is not allowed.
>>>
>>> Please feel free to comment.
>>>
>>> Liz
>>>
>>> Moderator hat
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:37:03 -0400
>> From: Michael or Penny Novack<stepbystepfarm at comcast.net>
>> To:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Reimbursement for fraud
>> Message-ID:<3fd706f2-0dd6-488e-b950-f68ec6b61cb3 at comcast.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>>
>> I will make no assumptions, not enough information to give you an
>> answer. And of course this is really an accounting question. You also
>> need to tell us if books cash basis or accrual basis (business features).
>>
>> WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL TRANSACTION? The original credit was to the credit
>> card, but the debit was to account X?? NOW when you are reimbursed the
>> debit will be to the credit card (if they did it that way) or to cash
>> (if they did it that way) and the credit will be to account X. NOT
>> INCOME. Reimbursement of an expense is not income.
>>
>> This is for cash basis.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael D Novack
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/14/2026 11:06 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>>> I am assuming that this fraud took some time to straighten out, and > there were amounts on your books for a stretch of time before it all
>> > cleared up. You want your accounts to look like that. > > First, I'd
>> void the original credit card payment with a note about > the fraud,
>> since it never went through. > > Next, I'd create a transaction for the
>> fraudulent amount to a new > expense account Expenses:Fraud. > >
>> Finally, when the money was recovered and returned, I'd enter a >
>> transaction from Expenses:Fraud back to your checking account. > >
>> IANAA, YMMV, IYKYK, IDKS, TKKKHITLLLH* David T. > > * I made that one up
>> for "To know know know him, is to love love > love him" > > On June 15,
>> 2026 5:47:47 AM GMT+05:30, "Stan Brown (using GC 4.14)" >
>> <stan+gc at fastmail.fm> wrote: >> On 2026-06-14 10:20, Robert Putman
>> wrote: >>> I had a check to a credit card company that was washed and
>> >>> cashed by someone else. We reported it as fraud and was >>>
>> eventually repaid. How do I record this in GnuCash so that it >>>
>> doesn't appear as income but that will balance in GnuCash? >> >> If I
>> understand you correctly, you did not actually lose (or gain) >> any
>> money by this episode of check fraud. >> >> In that case, you don't have
>> to record anything, since you had no >> income or expense and none of
>> your assets or liabilities changed >> in value. >> >> If you want to
>> record _something_ for historical purposes, you can >> enter a
>> transaction with no transfer account and no amounts. GC is >> quite
>> happy to accept such transactions and then you'll have a >> record in
>> your checking account register in case some time in the >> future you
>> need to know when this happened/ >> >> Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA
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