Problems with get quotes

[Devin Theriot-Orr]

On 12/04/2011 05:27 PM, Devin Theriot-Orr wrote:
> 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.

I fixed this problem, and indeed, it was not a gnucash or fq
problem. I run on a vpn, and for some reason my vpn was blocking the
queries. Works fine without the vpn. Just wanted to update the list
in case anyone else has this problem... if you do, check your
upstream network and disable any vpn.

Thanks,

Devin