Finance quote, system error

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 9:17 AM, giulc via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> I have retrieved quotes from Yahoo with F::Q for a long time without any
> issue. Since a couple of weeks, however, I sometimes get a general error
> which says "There was a system error while retrieving the price quotes".
> What can it be?
> Using gnc-fq-dump yahoo GOOG, for example, works perfectly. I have
> reinstalled all the dependencies, perl, etc and upgraded to gnucash 2.6.13.
> I'm using xubuntu 16.04.

That's happened in the past when Yahoo marks a symbol obsolete in some weird way. Try going through all of your old (as in no longer held) securities and disabling online quote retrieval for them.

Regards,
John Ralls