I started a new testnet wallet with a self-compiled v0.7.1-269-gf4445f9-beta (blkfile_upgrade). I immediately started mining using -gen=1
I noticed the number of transactions going up by 1, but there was no transaction showing up. This might be related to coinbase tx which tend to show up later than I would expect them to.
Even now, the wallet says 38 tx but if I count right its only 35.
Can you verify that a client restart fixes the wrong display? I also observed that problem recently while generating some testnet coins.
The counting of the number of transactions uses different criteria than the transaction list. This has always been the case as it counts on a lower level, though it may make sense to change. At least these differences exist
Restarting the client is not expected to help here.
No, restarting the client indeed doesn't help. I think - however you count - numbers should be consistent (or "number of transaction" removed - what is it good for?).
Fine with me to remove it
I'm also fine with removing that label. The other solution (to update counting etc.) would be much more effort and could create other problems IMHO. @laanwj It's a little weird to me, I have a testnet wallet, which shows 15 tx on overviewpage, 12 are displayed in the tx list and listtransactions "" 100 gives me 18 tx.
Edit: Seems I found out what the reason for this is. I have 3 tx, where I sent coins to an address in my testnet wallet (from and to is the same), which creates a send and an receive tx, which both have the same tx ID. Also orphaned transactions are not shown in the tx list, but via the listtransactions RPC command.
Edit 2: I would suggest to move the label from overviewpage to debug window and make it read unique transaction IDs with a help message Total number of unique transaction IDs in wallet. What about that?
Number of transactions was removed from overview page so this is no longer an issue.