[GNC] Trace file curiosity

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue May 28 14:04:42 EDT 2019



> On May 28, 2019, at 9:42 AM, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm running 2.6.21 and took a look at recent trace files just out of
> curiosity.  They all say various things, but practically all have this one
> note in common:
> 
> * 20:33:21  WARN <gnc.app-utils> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute
> child process (No such file or directory)
> 
> Does anyone know what causes this?  I'm not having a problem or anything,
> just curious what's going on.

It's GnuCash looking for perl to see if it should enable online quotes, utterly routine. The message should probably be reduced to an INFO.

Regards,
John Ralls


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