Gnucash FQ error

[David Reiser]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the future please ask these questions on the mailing list,
> not to any one person directly...
>
> "kendall green" <kendall.green at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> in Gnucash 2.2.0 I get the following message when trying to download
>> stock and Mutual Fund quotes "There was an unknown error while
>> retrieving the price quotes."  I am using openSUSE 10.3 and have
>> gnc-fq-check version 1.13.
>> in Gnucash 2.0.5 and earlier versions I did not get this error when
>> downloading quotes. I was using Fedora 7 and earlier versions.  I  
>> have
>> checked the mailing list and run these tests: gnc-fq-dump retrieves
>> all of the stock and mutual fund info.  I have edited the stocks and
>> mutual funds to change from single source downloads to multiple  
>> source
>> downloads (USA Yahoo, Fool ...) without improvement.  Any other
>> suggestions?   Is there some way to dump the Price Editor Get Quotes
>> output before it terminates with the error message.
>
> Do you have the Crypt:SSLeay package perl module installed?
>
>> Kendall Green
>
> -derek


On macs, I see the "there was an unknown error.." in cases where there  
are multiple instances/versions of perl installed. And gnc-fq-dump is  
not a reliable indicator of f-q health because it is hard coded to / 
usr/bin/perl.

Dave
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