[Kmymoney-devel] [kmymoney] [Bug 343291] backup fail

[Leslie Brothers]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343291

--- Comment #6 from Leslie Brothers <leslie.brothers at verizon.net> ---
(In my previous reply, I said:
"/home/leslie/Backups/KMM is a regular folder and, given that, I agree
it
is strange for KMM to not create a backup and not give an error message.
(Sorry I was misleading by saying it is always mounted.  It's just a
regular folder so mounted by definition.)
I will try to reproduce the behavior by doing what I did in the KMM
session when the backup failed -- namely, do a multi-year report, then
save and try to back up.")

1.  I have reproduced the conditions that create the backup problem.
   a.  If I do an Income and Expense by Year report only, I do not need
to save KMM before exiting.  In that case, I can do a backup with no
problem and the program exits nicely.
   b.  If I save anything else (an entry, even a memo in a check) and
ALSO do the Income and Expense by Year report in the same session, then
I have to save before exiting.  When I save, it is slow.  If I then try
the backup, it stalls as previously reported.  Note, it doesn't even get
to the point of telling me there is already a backup for today's date.
   c.  Of possible relevance is that my years (for income and expense)
start for some reason in 1959, although there are no figures until 1993.
   d.  If the backup fails as just described in (b), I can close the KMM
interface, but then the CPU goes and goes.  I had to run top to see that
the active process was kmymoney, then kill it for the machine to settle
down.
   e. I verified that changing an entry and saving it did not cause the
backup failure.  The changing and saving had to occur in the same
session as the income and expense by year report.  Likewise, as I noted
in (a), Income and Expense by itself did not cause a backup problem.  It
is the combination of both a change somewhere, and invoking the report,
that causes the problem.

2.  As requested by Thomas Baumgart, I made an anonymous file.  I ran it
and the problem was reproduced exactly as with my own file.  I have
attached the anonymous file.

3.  I did not see any output in dmesg after the error occurred.  I
looked in syslog but did not know what I was looking for.  I did not see
anything obvious.

Thank you.

On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 21:48 +0000, Jack wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343291
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> --- Comment #3 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
> Is /home/leslie/Backups/KMM a regular folder?  Since you say it is
always mounted, I suspect somthing else - a separate hard disk
partition, a USB thumb drive, an NSF mount, and SMB  mount, ...?  For a
normal folder, I can't think of any reason for KMM to not create the
backup and not give some error message.  Since it seems OK now, there is
not much point in running KMM from the command line to see if it outputs
any error that way.  However, I can imagine problems with a mount
(particularly a network mount) causing issues.  Is there anything that
might be relevant in the system logs (dmesg or /var/log/messages or
wherever Mint puts them?
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On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 21:48 +0000, Jack wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343291
> 
> Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> changed:
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> --- Comment #3 from Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> ---
> Is /home/leslie/Backups/KMM a regular folder?  Since you say it is always
> mounted, I suspect somthing else - a separate hard disk partition, a USB thumb
> drive, an NSF mount, and SMB  mount, ...?  For a normal folder, I can't think
> of any reason for KMM to not create the backup and not give some error message.
>  Since it seems OK now, there is not much point in running KMM from the command
> line to see if it outputs any error that way.  However, I can imagine problems
> with a mount (particularly a network mount) causing issues.  Is there anything
> that might be relevant in the system logs (dmesg or /var/log/messages or
> wherever Mint puts them?
>

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