Price quote retrieval not working

[John Ralls]

On Mar 30, 2013, at 6:58 AM, Holtug <holtug at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> When trying to retrieve the price quotes, the perl window comes up, but
> nothing happens for 20 minutes or so (just a blank console window). Finally
> it pops up a dialog saying it was unable to retrieve the quotes and whether
> to continue with just currencies - which it actually does, but it assigns
> the value of the Yen to GBP (and some of the other rates are suspect as
> well).
> 
> 
> 
> However, if running gnc-fq-dump it seems to be working just fine. See below.
> 
> 
> 
> c:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump usa BLL
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
> 
>    symbol: BLL                  <=== required
> 
>      date: 03/28/2013           <=== required
> 
>  currency: USD                  <=== required
> 
>      last: 47.58                <=\
> 
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
> 
>     price: 47.58                <=/
> 
>  timezone:                      <=== optional

It sounds like one or more of your sources has changed something and broken F::Q. Test each
one with gnc-fq-dump until you find the one that's broken.

You can raise a bug about that with F::Q. While they work on it, you can try to find alternate sources
for your quotes or just disable whichever ones are failing so that the rest work.

The currency problem is likely separate unless those quotes are coming from the same source.

Regards,
John Ralls