Yosemite

[John Ralls]

On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:02 PM, John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm experimenting with Yosemite beta and ran into a problem with GnuCash 2.6.3. Has anyone else got GnuCash running under Yosemite?
> 
> I should start with a little background. I don't have unlimited resources, so I'm running Yosemite in a VirtualBox VM. Naturally, it is possible that the VM is the cause of my problem, but it does seem to be completely stable and I have installed some other free software without problems (specifically, rsync built from sources, AlphaX from binary, and MacTex from the installer).
> 
> GnuCash itself seems to be clean and stable so far. The issue I'm having is with the Price Editor, but  I should note that I have not added any accounts to this GnuCash file, just the securities so I could download some price data. Before I ran GnuCash for the first time, I first ran FinanceQuote Update.app. This is the same procedure I followed when I installed GnuCash on my main system under Snow Leopard, where the Price Editor and downloading prices seems to be working flawlessly. Unfortunately, under Yosemite, I'm getting an error when I ask it to get prices: "There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." I have tried the same installation procedure under a fully updated Mavericks installation on another VM with the same problem, so I don't necessarily think the problem isn't unique to me. I would like some ideas on how to diagnose the problem.

I'm a bit delinquent on that. I ran some basic checks on the first developer preview, then got busy on other stuff and haven't even updated the dev preview, never mind trying Finance::Quote. I'm not going to have time to do anything about that for at least a few more days, either.

The first thing to do is to get GnuCash out of the loop. Open Terminal.app and run 
 /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-check
and if that runs without error,
 /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump yahoo AAPL

If the problem isn't obvious, post the results here.

Regards,
John Ralls