Problem retrieving stock quotes

[Conor O'Neill]

I've just seen the other thread about 'yahoo europe', and changing to
use 'yahoo' does seem to have (mostly) fixed things for me.

Thanks anyway

Conor O'Neill wrote:
> I'm just having a very similar problem. My Get Quotes used to work, but
> failed in the last week or two. Having read this thread, I have tried
> the various installs of perl modules, but with no success. When I try to
> install either of Date::Manip or HTML::TableExtract, it says they are
> up-to-date. How do I force a re-install?
> 
> # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Manip'
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
>   Database was generated on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:09:37 GMT
> Date::Manip is up to date.
> 
> 
> The debug messages I get out of gnucash look like this:
> 
> gnucash: [D] (handling-request ("yahoo_europe" "LMC.L"))
> gnucash: [D] (results #f)
> gnucash: [D] (handling-request ("uk_unit_trusts" "Fidelity American
> Special" "Invesco Perp Jap Small" "New Star European Growth" "Rathbone
> Smaller Cos" "Artemis UK Growth" "Aberdeen UK Growth" "Newton Oriental"))
> gnucash: [D] (results #<eof>)
> gnucash: [D] (handling-request ("europe" "LOG.L" "NRK.L" "VOD.L"))
> 
> 
> And that's it, even though I actually have far more funds in my accounts
> than just these ones.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> PS - if anyone has a login account on the GnuCash wiki, then could they
> please adjust the answer here (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ) under
> question "How do I fix a system error when getting stock quotes", to
> emphasise that you need to run 'gnucash --debug' (two dashes) instead of
> just 'gnucash -debug'...
> 


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Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK