On 4 November 2017 at 22:10, Jim Muchow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4 November 2017 at 21:12, Jim Muchow <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I know that the stock quotes feature is having issues, so I decided >>> that since I don't have so many and I don't need any more than >>> Friday's prices, to try to enter stock/fund prices manually. >>> >>> This doesn't seem to work either; well, it has issues. Let me explain. >> >> I always do this by first clicking on the most recent price for a fund >> then clicking Add and entering the data in the box that pops up. > > It's still a workaround; just different than that I described. I'm fine with > workarounds, but they're just that, workarounds as opposed to operations > that behave well. > >> I have not had any of the problems you describe. > > Did you try them?
It wasn't clear to me *exactly* what you had done so I was just saying what I do. From my point of view it is not a workaround as that is how I have always done it. Which is not to say that there is not a bug there that you have found by doing it a different way. Colin > I didn't have these problems either (or didn't know > I had them) until I tried to manually set stock/fund prices. Perhaps it's > version specific. Ubuntu tends to be somewhat behind. > >> That is using 2.6.15 on >> Ubuntu (17.04). By the way there is no Ubuntu 16.06. > > OK, 16.04.03. > >> >> Colin >> >>> >>> I start up gnucash and then using the pulldown, bring up the Price >>> Editor window. The first oddity comes when I hit the Add button; >>> the following is displayed on the terminal window I used to start up >>> gnucash: >>> >>> sys:1: GtkWarning: gtk_list_store_get_path: assertion 'iter->stamp == >>> GTK_LIST_STORE (tree_model)->stamp' failed >>> >>> Nothing "bad" happens other than this warning line, so I continue. >>> >>> In the Price Editor window, I modify the various items to point to >>> a fund that I want to update and do so. When I use the Apply button, >>> the changes are taken. If I then hit the Cancel, I can escape without >>> crashing. This is not the case, if I hit the Apply button. A few seconds >>> go by and then I get a segfault and the program exits. Curiously, >>> the program crashes the same way if I try to edit or re-enter a price >>> for a date already entered (although if I Remove it first, it works). >>> >>> Anyway, as long as I continue to enter a price, hit Apply, and then >>> Cancel. I can make this work. The gnucash app sent some debug >>> and crash info off to Ubuntu after one crash. >>> >>> I am running Xubuntu 16.06 and Gnucash 2.6.12 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>> ----- >>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. >>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
