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

[John Ralls]

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.)

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile