[GNC] update quotes hanging

[Jon Schewe]

I'm using GnuCash 2.6.19 that ships with Ubuntu 18.04. I'm finding that 
the update price quotes process is hanging, both from within GnuCash and 
from the command line.

I've created a CSV file of all of my commodities and tested them 
individual using gnc-fq-dump and they all return fairly quickly. Not all 
of them have valid prices, but none hang. Below is the script that I 
have used with cron in the past to update my quotes at regular intervals.

When the process is running I can strace it and I find that the perl 
process is usually in a write call writing "use of uninitialized value".

Does anyone have suggestions to determine why updating the quotes is 
hanging?

Is this a problem with this version of gnucash? I would prefer to stick 
with the version of gnucash that comes with my distribution so that I 
get automatic updates, however I can build a custom version if that is 
what is needed.


#!/bin/sh

ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=XXXXXXX
export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY
env $(dbus-launch) sh -c 'trap "kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" EXIT; 
/usr/bin/gnucash --add-price-quotes 
${HOME}/Documents/banking/gnucash/accounts.gnucash' 2>&1 | grep -v 
"Found Finance::Quote"

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