Re: A bug (and you will hate the report)

[Vidar Hoel <vhoel99 grm hia no>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:30:42AM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:44:41PM +0200, Vidar Hoel wrote:
> > I use Gnumeric 1.1.16, I have used it quite some time, and it works
> > very well, almost. I use it to set up and fill in my budget and
> > finace, my privat echonomy. I open the file, punch in some new
> > numbers, and save/close the file and Gnumeric.
> >
> > But one day, when I open the file, only 10% of the file was left!
> > I have made a copy of the file and attached it. It seems that when I
> > last used Gnumeric, and saved the file, something bad happened. I got
> > no errormessage or warning. No indication at all.
> >
> > I am 95% sure that it was not a crash, and Gnumeric was closed as
> > normal.
>
> This is the first I've heard of anything like that.  The file offers
> some clues, but nothing concrete.  It seems to end in the middle of
> an xml element and without closing the gzip stream.  Which would be
> consistent with a crash, its hard to guess what content immediately
> following the style regions would have caused breakage.  Had you
> just made changes on the 2nd Sheet (RegnskapJan) ?

I am very careful not to use any other program when running Gnumeric,
because I used to have lookups when running Gnumeric and Mozilla on
two different workspaces. And when I switched between them , the
system frooze. This bug is now gone, but I am still careful.

I have admit that my Mozilla kept freezing my system at this time, but
I am still quite sure it was not a crash/freeze when this happend. But
if no other solution comes up....

I had 5 sheets: Budsjett (Budget), Regnskap2003 (Accounting),
RegnskapJan, RegnskapFeb and RegnskapMar. I am certian that I made
changes in RegnskapMar, and that would have updated some numbers in
Regnskap2003 too. But I do not think I changed anything in RegnskapJan
or in Budsjett.

As I said, this bug-report is nasty, becuase I can't remeber details
:-(

Hope this might give you a clue....


Regards,

Vidar Hoel - vhoel99 grm hia no