Problem going from 2.2.0
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Apr 4 18:49:57 EDT 2008
Locale setting as in your computer's locale setting. This is completely
outside GnuCash. man locale(1)
-derek
Quoting Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>:
> locale as in settings within gnucash or is there something in Fedora?
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> So what you're saying is that 2.2.0 on F8 gives you the same results
>> as 2.2.4 on F8, but 2.2.0 on F7 works fine? If that's what you're saying
>> then that leads me to believe there's something with your locale.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>>
>> Quoting Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Just got 2.2.0 installed and I'm getting the same thing, but when I
>> > reboot
>> > into my Fedora 7 system the file's balance is correct. I'm really
>> > confused
>> > now. I don't have a clue as to where to begin looking. I do vaguely
>> > remember
>> > something about character coding? Something with the OS itself, does
>> > that
>> > make sense?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Please remember to CC gnucash-user on ALL REPLIES using your
>> > > mailer's Reply-to-List or Reply-All features.
>> > >
>> > > "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> writes:
>> > >
>> > > > It seems to start around May of 2006. I can't remember any
>> > > significant
>> > > event
>> > > > that may have occurred at that time to have this effect. As I was
>> > > explaining
>> > >
>> > > Well, what other transactions happened around that time? Check your
>> > > data file, too?
>> > >
>> > > > to MafiaKing I'm currently having problems sending posts although I
>> > > do
>> > > > regularly receive other posts. I haven't been able to determine why
>> > > yet,
>> > > so I
>> > > > apologize for being a PITA by sending directly to you rather than
>> > > the
>> > > list. I
>> > > > have checked the change list on the site and cannot see what is
>> > > causing
>> > > the
>> > > > issue. As I have told Mafia King, I plan to roll back to 2.2.0 and
>> > > rule
>> > > out F8
>> > > > as the problem, then try stepping thru the upgrades to see when and
>> > > where it
>> > > > happens. I will also take a closer look at your suggestions.
>> > >
>> > > Your first post (that I replied to) made it just fine to the list.
>> > >
>> > > > TIA
>> > >
>> > > -derek
>> > >
>> > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > > "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> writes:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I had been running Gnucash 2.2.0 on Fedora 7, I have just
>> > > installed
>> > > > Fedora
>> > > > > 8 and Gnucash 2.2.4. My checking account now shows a negative
>> > > balance of
>> > > > > $12,871.25. I can't seem to see what's missing. It seems to go
>> > > back to
>> > > > 2005.
>> > > > > When I run Gnucash 2.2.0 on my old system (Dual-Booting right
>> > > now)
>> > > > > everything is correct. What changed between 2.2.0 & 2.2.4?
>> > > >
>> > > > You can look at Trac <http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/> to see the
>> > > > history of all the changes made to the 2.2 branch since 2.2.0
>> > > > was released. Actually, that's not completely true because
>> > > > we didn't actually create the 2.2 branch until around 2.2.1.
>> > > >
>> > > > But I can't imagine anything that could cause this unless you
>> > > > have some garbage in your datafile that 2.2.0 ignored but 2.2.4
>> > > > doesn't (or vise-versa). You might want to look for some errant
>> > > > transactions in your data file.
>> > > >
>> > > > As what point does the balance start being off?
>> > > > Did your locale change? Maybe your data file is in a
>> > > > different currency and GnuCash is performing a translation for
>> > > you?
>> > > >
>> > > > Good Luck,
>> > > >
>> > > > > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> > > > > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
>> > > >
>> > > > -derek
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>> > > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
>> > > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
>> > > > warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>> > > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
>> > > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
>> > > warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
>> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
>> warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
>>
>>
>
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH
warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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