[GNC] update quotes hanging

[Jon Schewe]

I just tried 3.7.0 from ppa:sicklylife/gnucash and the behavior hasn't 
changed.

On 9/23/19 2:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> 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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