[GNC] update quotes hanging

[Adrien Monteleone]

There are no updates to the 2.6 series any longer. 2.6.21 is the last one and nearly 18 months old. There have been eight 3.x releases so far.

You can build from source, or there are debs floating around on the list for 3.7 that you should be able to install on 18.04.


Regards,
Adrien

> On Sep 23, 2019 w39d266, at 5:58 AM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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