Just guessing here, but can you open the last backup and get back to where you 
were before deleting one of the duplicated accounts.

Then, make a backup for safety's sake.

Then:
Change the name on one of the accounts.
Move all the transaction froms the account to be deleted to the other account.
Then delete the extra account.

The middle step is probably not needed, since it should ask you what to do with 
the transactions when you try to delete an account, but it can't hurt. The main 
point is to change the name so you don't have two accounts with the same name 
before trying to delete one of them.

As I said, just a guess,
Will

On 9 Dec 2025, at 16:18, Fred Tydeman <[email protected]> wrote:

I tried to delete one of the OKE Trading accounts and move those
transactions to the other OKE Trading account.
That causes GnuCash 5.12 on Fedora Linux 41 to crash and produce a core
dump.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM R Losey <[email protected]> wrote:

> As we have recently discussed, GnuCash uses an internal ID for the
> accounts; the "name" can be anything... you could name all of your accounts
> "My Account" if you really wanted to, but that would be highly confusing...
> the account name is for our benefit... (that's why, if I hold the same
> stock in two different brokerage accounts, that I use different account
> names for them - I typically use <account>-<stock>.  For example, if I have
> Amazon stock in both a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA, I'll call one
> "TIRA-Amazon" and the other one "Roth-Amazon" -- it works for me).
> 
> Because the transactions in the account are different, it seems that
> (somehow) you created the account twice. You should just consolidate them
> into one account and remove the other one.
> 
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM Fred Tydeman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> My COA has two accounts with the same name in the same Trading
>> sub-account.
>> My understanding is that it should not happen.  Is that correct?
>> I have run Check & Repair All
>> That did not change anything.
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