Finance::Quote under 2.2.6 Not working?

[David T.]

See below...


--- On Tue, 9/9/08, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Finance::Quote under 2.2.6 Not working?
> To: sunfish62 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "devel gnucash" <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 6:38 PM
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 4:05 PM, David T. wrote:
> 
> > I have been unable to get quotes in GC for a while now
> (since I  
> > upgraded to 2.2.6?); clicking the Get Quotes button
> yields an  
> > hourglass and hangs and my only recourse is to kill
> the process. I  
> > am running GC 2.2.6 on an IntelMac with Leopard 10.5.4
> and x-quartz  
> > 2.2.3.
> >
> > Any help is welcome.
> >
> > David
> 
> 
> Hmm. Works for me. How did you install gnucash and/or
> update? 

Installed gnucash2 a while back using Fink. Ran fink update gnucash2 to update to 2.2.6

> Did you  
> update x-quartz before or after updating gnucash? (I
> don't think  
> xquartz is the problem, but...)
> 

I don't recall which one came before the other.

> What happens if you type:
> 
> gnc-fq-dump yahoo AAPL
> 
> in a terminal window?

Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
    symbol: AAPL                 <=== required
      date: 00/00/2000           <=== required
  currency: USD                  <=== required
      last: 151.68               <=\       
       nav:                      <=== one of these
     price: 151.68               <=/        
  timezone:                      <=== optional

> 
> What quote source are you trying to use?

Whatever Gnucash/F::Q has chosen (I assume yahoo.com)

> 
> Have you knowingly updated any of your perl setup lately?

Not knowingly. ;)

> 
> When you start gnucash, what does the terminal say about
> finding  
> Finance-Quote?

bash-3.2$ gnucash
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at configure time.

Found Finance::Quote version 1.13

> 
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net

I'm pretty sure that the Get Quotes button would be greyed out if F::Q weren't found to be working. This hourglass business is new to me.

David