Crash on opening imported transaction in ledger

Thomas Baumgart thb at net-bembel.de
Mon Jun 9 11:21:06 BST 2025


On Montag, 2. Juni 2025 01:47:52 CEST Jack Ostroff via KMyMoney-devel wrote:

> I have an investment transaction imported by OFX, and KMM crashes with  
> a Floating point exception when I try to open the account in the ledger.
> 
> [below lines manually wrapped and memos and some other fields shortened  
> for readability.]
> 
>  From the kmm-statement file for the ofx import:
> <TRANSACTION payee="" amount="2/1" brokerageaccount="" number=""  
> action="sell" bankid="ID 20250519CA210057180306067"
>       price="0/1" security="ALTABA INC" memo="Exchange: ALTABA INC CASH  
> MERGER" reconcile="0" securityId="021ESC017"
>       dateposted="2025-05-19" shares="0/1" fees="0/1"/>
> 
> This imported as
>     <TRANSACTION id="T000000000000034673" postdate="2025-05-19"  
> memo="Exchange: ALTABA INC CASH MERGER" entrydate="2025-05-31"  
> commodity="USD">
>        <SPLITS>
>          <SPLIT id="S0001" payee="" reconciledate="" action=""  
> reconcileflag="0" value="2/1" shares="2/1" price="0/1"
>            memo="Exchange: ALTABA INC CASH MERGER" account="A000345"  
> number="" bankid=""/>
>          <SPLIT id="S0002" payee="" reconciledate="" action="Buy"  
> reconcileflag="0" value="2/1" shares="0/1" price="0/1"
>            memo="Exchange: ALTABA INC CASH MERGER" account="A000722"  
> number="" bankid="ID 20250519CA210057180306067"/>
>        </SPLITS>
>        <KEYVALUEPAIRS>
>          <PAIR key="Imported" value="true"/>
>        </KEYVALUEPAIRS>
>      </TRANSACTION>
> 
> "Show transaction details" shows the price in both splits as 1, not 0
> 
> Clearly this is a strange transaction, since the UI won't let me create  
> a buy/sell for 0 shares.  I have no idea why Merrill Lynch calls this a  
> sell, as it appears to just be some sort of dividend or other payout of  
> $2.00.
> 
> My assumption is there is a divide by zero, but I can't be sure until I  
> trace through the code.  If nothing else, shouldn't this type of error  
> get trapped and reported instead of crashing?	

Here's a fix to get around the division by zero problem:

https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/commit/cb810055443cdb5a8dabeb3f87da36b826a8080f

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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