Getting online price quotes via command line fails

[Colin Law]

On 7 September 2016 at 09:59, Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quick update: I normally started GnuCash, got todays price quotes, saved and
> closed it. The trace file is empty.

Add --debug to the command line to get more detail.

Colin

>
>
> Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 7. Sep. 2016 um 10:50
> Uhr:
>>
>> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 7. Sep. 2016 um 10:36 Uhr:
>>>
>>> On 7 September 2016 at 09:25, Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I am running GnuCash 2.6.13 on Windows. Getting price quotes for
>>> > currencies
>>> > works using the GUI.
>>> >
>>> > I am trying to get the price quotes from a command line with the
>>> > following
>>> > command:
>>> > gnucash --add-price-quotes C:\myfile.gnucash
>>>
>>> Have you really got your accounts file in the root of C:? That sounds
>>> like a bad idea.
>>>
>> No, my accounts file is in another directory, but for testing purposes I
>> put a copy of it there.
>>
>>>
>>> > The Strawberry Perl window opens and closes quickly and no quotes are
>>> > retrieved. This also happens on normal GnuCash startup.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by the final statement?  Do you mean that
>>> gnucash C:\myfile.gnucash
>>> also fails?  If so then this is not an issue with the quotes but just
>>> with running from the command line.
>>>
>>> This will show you where to find the trace file which will likely have
>>> more information.
>>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>>
>>
>> I will check the trace file, thanks for the link.
>> Runnig 'gnucash C:\myfile.gnucash' from the command line works, it opens
>> my GnuCash data file.
>> What I meant was that the Strawberry perl windows opens and closes quickly
>> on GnuCash startup (just as it does when manually executing 'gnucash
>> --add-price-quotes C:\myfile.gnucash'). This was not the case before
>> installing the online price quote.
>> Hence my question if the price quotes are (or should be) automatically
>> updated on GnuCash startup.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Colin