Problems with get quotes

[Devin Theriot-Orr]

On 12/04/2011 04:59 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
> 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.
>
Drat. I'm removed all extra repos, purged gnucash and
libfinance-quotes-perl and reinstalled from the Ubuntu:Lucid repos.
No dice. Same error. I'm not sure what to do.

If anyone has any other ideas, let me know.

Thanks,

Devin