Package: gnucash
Version: 1.9.6-3
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
Hi,
I just noticed that the new gnucash version seems to corrupt imported
data sets. I use the package with [EMAIL PROTECTED] set, and the
following procedure reproducably loses a lot of transactions from my
accounts:
- Open old gnucash file for import
- Accept standard choices for import wizard
(At this point, it's possible to save, exit, reload, edit etc without
trouble)
- Import a generated QIF file
(At this point, everything looks fine - as far as I can tell, all
transactions are processed correctly and all balances are sane)
- Save, Close, Reload: Suddenly, lots of transactions have simply
disappeared.
I haven't been able to figure out what the criteria that cause
transactions to disappear are, but here's some additional random
observations:
- It only appears to happen with accounts that have non-ASCII names.
Unfortunately, the default new account scheme for gnucash with a
german locale uses "Barvermögen" as the category that among others
includes cash and bank accounts, so this is probably not an uncommon
setup. Renaming the account to "Barvermoegen" prior to importing makes
the bug go away.
- The initial problem seems to be in reading the data file, not in the
writing process. I conclude this from a diff between the (gunzipped)
data files before and after the QIF import - the only differences
there are the transactions that were added through the import.
However, after saving the misread file once in gnucash, the
"invisible" transactions are also gone from the file, so this doesn't
seem to mitigate the seriousness of the bug.
ciao,
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii g-wrap 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii gnucash-common 1.9.6-3 A personal finance tracking progra
ii guile-1.6-libs 1.6.8-3 Main Guile libraries
ii guile-1.6-slib 1.6.8-3 Guile SLIB support
ii guile-g-wrap 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.10-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.10-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.10-1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdate-manip-perl 5.44-2 a perl library for manipulating da
ii libdbus-1-2 0.61-6 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libffi4 4.1.0-4 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libfinance-quote-perl 1.11-0.1 Perl module for retrieving stock q
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgail-common 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.8.11-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.2-1 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.12.1-3 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.12.1-3 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.2-1 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgnutls13 1.3.5-1.1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.2-1 library for common error values an
ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgsf-gnome-1-114 1.14.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.18-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.10.1-1 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.8-3 Guile's patched version of libtool
ii libgwrap-runtime0 1.9.6-3 scripting interface generator for
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libltdl3 1.5.22-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii libofx2c2a 1:0.8.0-12 library to support Open Financial
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libqthreads-12 1.6.8-3 QuickThreads library for Guile
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libtasn1-2 1:0.2.17-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:3.0.1.2-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.24.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii psfontmgr 0.11.8-0.1 PostScript font manager -- part of
ii slib 3a3-2 Portable Scheme library
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 22 Configure TrueType and CID fonts f
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
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