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
>>
>>
>



-- 
       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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