GnuCash 2.4.7 fails to download stock quotes on Mac OS 10.7 (Lion)

[John Ralls]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Vincent Lucarelli wrote:

> The only lines I see generated in the trace file right after clicking "Get Quotes" look like:
> 
> * 21:07:04  INFO <gnc.account> [xaccAccountGetBalanceInCurrency]  baln=-37125029/100
> 
> Earlier in the trace file is the line
> 
> * 21:06:26 MESSG <gnc.scm> Found Finance::Quote version 1.17
> 
> Other than those, I can't correlate any entry in the trace file with the error.
> 
> Vince
> 
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:35 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Vincent Lucarelli wrote:
>> 
>>> I followed the work around instructions at 
>>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655059
>>> to get Gnucash running on lion and ran 
>>> 	$sudo ./gnc-fq-update
>>> 
>>> But I cannot download stock quotes.
>>> 
>>> If I use the terminal an go into Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin
>>> then the following works:
>>> 
>>>> echo '(yahoo "AAPL")' | ./gnc-fq-helper 
>>> (("AAPL" (symbol . "AAPL") (gnc:time-no-zone . "2011-07-26 16:00:00") (last . 403.41) (currency . "USD")))
>>> 
>>> In Gnucash, when I open the price editor window and click get quotes, 
>>> an error box appears with
>>> 
>>> "There was a system error while retrieving the price quotes"
>>> 
>>> In the console, the follow log message appears right after trying to get quotes:
>>> 
>>> 7/26/11 10:20:30.705 PM [0x0-0x382382].org.gnucash.Gnucash: Jul 26 22:20:30 imac.home Gnucash-bin[19219] <Error>: clip: empty path.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions on tracking down the issue?
>> 
>> The "clip: empty path" message is due to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655087. That has nothing to do with it. Are there any useful messages in your tracefile [1]? (Ignore all of the warnings about missing actions.)
>> 

Did you run gnc-fq-update or the FinanceQuote Update app that's in the dmg?
Maybe try it again?

Regards,
John Ralls