Online Update of prices is dead

[Stephan Pouh]

Derek,

I get the same as you do:
[root at localhost bin]# echo '(yahoo "ALVR")' | gnc-fq-helper
(("ALVR" (symbol . "ALVR") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2009-02-13 16:00:00") (last . 
3.31) (currency . "USD")))

So I took the advice in your mail to Beth and ran an update of F::Q and finally 
got:
[root at localhost bin]# gnc-fq-update
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:27:00 GMT
LWP is up to date (5.824).
Date::Manip is up to date (5.54).
HTML::Parser is up to date (3.60).
HTML::TableExtract is up to date (2.10).
Crypt::SSLeay is up to date (0.57).
Finance::Quote is up to date (1.15).

As a last resort I read (yep) the GC description on svn.gnucash.org and tried 
a non GUI update of the prices, but received the following error message:
[smpouh at localhost Buchhaltung]$ gnucash --add-price-quotes Konten2
Found Finance::Quote version 1.15
ERROR: In procedure fport_flush:
ERROR: Bad file descriptor
gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "ct" unregistered
gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "configmgr" unregistered
gwenhywfar-INFO: plugin.c:  577: Plugin type "dbio" unregistered

Cheers,
Stephan

On Monday 09 February 2009 18:46:04 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please remember to CC gnucash-user on all replies using your
> mailer's Reply-To-List or Reply-All functionality.
>
> Stephan Pouh <smpouh at gmx.at> writes:
> > Dear Derek,
> >
> > Thank you for answering. I still use GnuCash, no worries there - wouldn't
> > want to throw away 7 years of data, and I have become quite attached to
> > GC ;)
> >
> > Anyway, when using "gnc-fq-dump yahoo ALVR" I get the proper result:
> >> [smpouh at localhost indigo_v1.0.9_3]$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo ALVR
> >>
> >> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> >> symbol: ALVR <=== required
> >> date: 02/06/2009 <=== required
> >> currency: USD <=== required
> >> last: 3.68 <=\
> >> nav:          <=== one of these
> >> price: 3.68 <=/
> >> timezone: <=== optional
> >
> > Any ideas what this might be about? Stock quotes also work for other
> > equities, basically all of the ones I have.
>
> Well, this means F::Q can read it from the website.  So the question
> is why does GnuCash fail.  What do you get from:
>
>   echo '(yahoo "ALVR")' | gnc-fq-helper
>
> I get something like:
>
> (("ALVR" (symbol . "ALVR") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2009-02-09 12:29:00") (last
> . 3.60) (currency . "USD")))
>
> -derek