[GNC] Currency Database empty

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 16, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Chris Good <goodchris96 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Message: 11
> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 11:40:52 -0500
> From: Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org>
> To: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> Cc: gnucash-user email group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Currency Database empty
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> John,
> 
> xml backend.
> 
> not running with -debug but trace has some of these:
> * 10:50:08  WARN <qof.engine> [gnc_dmy2time64_internal()] Date computation
> error from Y-M-D 201-12-11: Year is out of valid range: 1400..9999
> * 10:56:13  CRIT <gnc.backend.xml> xmlNodePtr time64_to_dom_tree(const char
> *, const time64): assertion 'time != INT64_MAX' failed
> * 10:56:13  CRIT <gnc.backend.xml> xmlNodePtr time64_to_dom_tree(const char
> *, const time64): assertion 'time != INT64_MAX' failed
> 
> But the date error does not seem to be coming from the Price Database tool.
> (Restarted gnc, went to price tool, tired to add currency exchange, failed
> - but no CRIT trace. The WARN appeared when gnc was started and before
> using price tool.)
> 
> Keith
> 
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 11:25 AM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 16, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Version: 3.4
>>> Build ID: 3.4+ (2018-12-30)
>>> Finance::Quote: 1.47
>>> MacOS 10.14.3 (recent update)
>>> 
>>> Recently moved up from gnc 2 to 3.4. Opened Price Database tool and ran
>> get
>>> quotes, as I have done for years. Got the alert box that it couldn't get
>>> CAD. That's not a surprise. Update to prices was completed and I went to
>>> hand enter a new CAD/USD price. No CAD or USD price history shows (there
>>> should have been 15 years worth). So I selected ADD to at least have the
>>> current exchange rate. After clicking Apply and / or OK, no exchange
> rate
>>> was added and the set of exchange rates is still empty.
>>> 
>>> Is this known? Is there a fix?
>> 
>> I thought that I'd seen something similar from last month but I can't find
>> it. What backend are you using? Are there any useful messages in the trace
>> file [1]?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> [1] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi Keith & John,
> 
> (John probably already knows this but just in case)
> 
> Maybe this is https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797046 ?
> Is there a 3.4 build for MacOS after the original 3.4?

Chris,

No, there are no nightlies for MacOS.

Regards,
John Ralls