"System error while retrieving price quotes"

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Oliver D. Iberien wrote:
> I sent this earlier in the day... I ran the price quote update while logging 
> at loglevel 4. The price quote retrieval still crapped out, but there was 
> nothing in the log that was to my untrained eye intelligible as an error 
> message. I have no clue what is going on, as there has been no change to my 
> system since yesterday, the last time this worked.
> 
> Is there any chance that upgrading to the current version of GnuCash would 
> help? And if so... I originally compiled from source. I can't find any 
> description of the upgrade procedure in the archives or anywhere on the web. 
> The upgrade procedure may be screamingly obvious to a lot of people, but I 
> don't want to experiment and risk losing all my data. Could someone kindly 
> point me to a description of it?

As far as I know, there is no "upgrade" of a compiled gnucash. You 
should simply download the source for the version you want (current 
stable is 1.8.11 which is "gnucash-1-8-branch" from cvs. download 
instructions are at http://www.gnucash.org/en/hacking.phtml

if you are concerned about having it compile properly etc then I suggest 
you use the opt-style-install to put the executables in its own 
directory. THis iwll keep it from overwriting your current installation. 
Try this:

./autogen.sh --enable-opt-style-install --prefix=<your chosen 
destination here>

of course you can put whatever other options you need such as 
--enable-ofx etc.

then make and sudo make install. The enable-opt* and the prefix=* flags 
tell it to INSTALL to the specified directory.

This however probably doesn't solve your problem. I can only imagine 
that *something* has changed on your system from one day to the next. Do 
you have some kind of cronjob that updates your system maybe?

A
> 
> On Tuesday 18 October 2005 02:54 pm, Oliver D. Iberien wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Price quotes in GnuCash 1.8.9, SuSE 9.1, compiled from source, have
>>suddenly stopped working after ten months. GnuCash puts up an error stating
>>"System error while retrieving price quotes." Running it in debug for some
>>reason does not even show this failure happening or the posting of the
>>error message, so I don't know where to begin. I don't see anything in the
>>archives about this. Can someone help? Thanks.
>>
>>Oliver
> 
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