Package: gnucash
Version: 1.8.10-7
Severity: normal
Transactions created a long time ago (presumably with a previous version
of GNU cash) cannot be edited. GNU cash fails in strange ways. For
example, if I edit the 'opening balance' transaction for an account, the
'credit' and 'debit' values go blank, and the entire 'balance' column
is blanked out. Also, I am able to edit the exchange rate for the
transaction (whereas normally this is only possible when a currency
conversion has taken place). Finally, GNU cash will not let me move off
of the transaction, claiming that it is unbalanced. There appears to be
no way to balance it (all options fail).
Looking in the XML file, it seems that these older entries start, eg:
6e0f689ecd54c363674e2d6ea73ac0fd
2001-09-01 00:00:00 +0100
I noticed that later entries have a 'currency' element, which I copied
into the old entry, like this:
6e0f689ecd54c363674e2d6ea73ac0fd
ISO4217
GBP
2001-09-01 00:00:00 +0100
After reloading GNU cash, the entry then appeared to work correctly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10talex
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gnucash depends on:
ii bonobo 1.0.22-2.2 The GNOME Bonobo System.
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-16.2 imaging library for use with gtk (
ii gnucash-common 1.8.10-7A personal finance tracking progra
ii guile-1.6-libs 1.6.7-1 Main Guile libraries
ii guile-1.6-slib 1.6.7-1 Guile SLIB support
ii libart2 1.4.2-19The GNOME canvas widget - runtime
ii libaudiofile00.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2 1.0.22-2.2 The GNOME Bonobo library.
ii libc62.3.2.ds1-20GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdate-manip-perl 5.42a-2 a perl library for manipulating da
ii libdb3 3.2.9-22Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfinance-quote-per 1.08-1 Perl module for retrieving stock q
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgal23 0.24-1.4G App Libs (run time library)
ii libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 0.22.0-7The GNOME1 Canvas pixbuf library
ii libgdk-pixbuf2 0.22.0-7The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+
ii libghttp11.0.9-15original GNOME HTTP client library
ii libglade-gnome0 1:0.17-3Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglade01:0.17-3Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.4.2-19The GNOME libraries
ii libgnomeprint15 0.37-5 The GNOME Print architecture - run
ii libgnomesupport0 1.4.2-19The GNOME libraries (Support libra
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.2-19The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii libgtk1.21.2.10-17 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libgtkhtml20 1.0.4-6.2 HTML rendering/editing library - r
ii libguile-ltdl-1 1.6.7-1 Guile's patched version of libtool
ii libguppi16 0.40.3-11 GNOME graph and plot component
ii libgwrapguile1 1.3.4-12g-wrap: Tool for exporting C libra
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libltdl3 1.5.6-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii liboaf0 0.6.10-3The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii libofx1 1:0.7.0-7 library to support Open Financial
ii liborbit00.5.17-9Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libqthreads-12 1.6.7-1 QuickThreads library for Guile
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxml1 1:1.8.17-10 GNOME XML library
ii libzvt2 1.4.2-19The GNOME zvt (zterm) widget
ii oaf 0.6.10-3The GNOME Object Activation Framew
ii slib 3a1-4.2 Portable Scheme library
ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4
