Problems with get quotes

[John Ralls]

On Dec 4, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Devin Theriot-Orr wrote:

> On 12/04/2011 01:54 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Devin Theriot-Orr wrote:
>> 
>>> I am having trouble with the get updates function for price quotes.
>>> I am running Ubuntu Lucid 64 bit, and have updated to gnucash 2.4.7
>>> built from rb5bdf19+.
>>> 
>>> It used to work and I didn't make any changes that I am aware of, It
>>> last pulled quotes on 10/14/2011.
>>> 
>>> Per the FAQ, I tried the following:
>>> 
>>> # gnc-fq-update
>>> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
>>> Going to read '/home/sunbird/.cpan/Metadata'
>>> Database was generated on Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:27:18 GMT
>>> LWP is up to date (6.03).
>>> Date::Manip is up to date (6.25).
>>> HTML::Parser is up to date (3.69).
>>> HTML::TableExtract is up to date (2.11).
>>> Crypt::SSLeay is up to date (0.58).
>>> Finance::Quote is up to date (1.17).
>>> 
>>> I've tried updating with the file open from the Price menu and I get
>>> "Unable to receive price quotes." Similarly, if I run it with the
>>> file closed from the command line, I get this:
>>> 
>>> $ gnucash --debug --add-price-quotes=PATH/TO/FILENAME
>>> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
>>> configure time.
>>> 
>>> Found Finance::Quote version 1.17
>>> $
>>> 
>>> But loading the file shows that the quotes have not updated. I
>>> looked in /tmp/gnucash.trace but didn't see anything relevant
>>> (although I may not be looking for the right things.)
>> 
>> What results do you get when you do steps 2 and 3 of
>> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_How_do_I_fix_a_system_error_when_getting_stock_quotes.3F
>> 
> 
> Step 2 works fine:
> $ gnc-fq-check
> ("1.17" "vwd" "yahoo_nz" "australia" "amfiindia" "usfedbonds"
> *snip*
> 
> But Step 3 does not:
> 
> $ echo '(yahoo "CSCO")' | gnc-fq-helper
> Use of uninitialized value within %info in string eq at
> /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm line 222, <> line 1.
> Use of uninitialized value $info{" \34p_change"} in substitution
> (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm line 238, <>
> line 1.
> Use of uninitialized value within %info in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/share/perl5/Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm line 243, <> line 1.
> (#f)
> 
> Obviously, something is missing, but I can't figure out what since
> gnc-fq-update run as root exits without errors.
> 
>> If those both return satisfactory results, run gnucash --debug --add-price-quotes again, zip up the tracefile, and attach it to your reply. Perhaps someone else can find what's failing.
> 
> Not sure if I should proceed with this step since the prior step fails.
> 

Nope, if there's a problem in Finance::Quote, the rest of it won't work.

I just did an update of FQ and I'm not having a problem, which implies there's a problem with your FQ installation. If there's an FQ package for your distro you might try removing the CPAN version and trying to install that.

Regards,
John Ralls