Unable to retrieve quotes

[Donald Allen]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running 2.2.9 on an up-to-date Arch Linux system. I am unable to
> retrieve price quotes, getting instead the error message "There was a
> system error while retrieving the price quotes". I have done the test
> suggested in the Concepts Guide, namely:
>
> dca at octavian:~$ gnc-fq-dump yahoo IBM
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: IBM                  <=== required
>      date: 02/08/2010           <=== required
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
>      last: 122.87               <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 122.87               <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> dca at octavian:~$
>
> Anyone have any bright ideas as to what might be wrong, or suggestions
> for debugging this?

Clue: I have another Arch system, also up-to-date, that does not have
this problem (with the same personal Gnucash file). Same packages
installed on both with a few additional on the problem system. I'm
guessing this is an Arch rolling-release-version-skew problem, though
at this point I don't *know* that. Maybe I need a more conservative
Linux distribution.

>
> Thanks --
> /Don Allen
>