[GNC] --add-price-quotes prints nothing and always fails with no info

[Hong Xu]

On 6/6/20 12:19 AM, Chris Good wrote:
> and "gnucash -v" outputs:
> 
> By default GnuCash logs to a file: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Tracefile.
> 
> If you want the output to go to the terminal add `--logto=stderr` to the
> command line.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> Hi Hong,
> 
> (apologies if this is not the correct way to address you)
> 
> If it works in gnc-fq-dump, but not from Get Quotes button, maybe there is a
> problem with how the stock is set up in the Security Editor.
> Please attach (do not paste into message) a screen dump showing the setup in
> the security editor.
> Note that (I think) in old versions of GnuCash, a problem with 1 stock could
> cause them all to fail, so it is worthwhile unticking 'Get Quotes' on all
> the securities and keep importing and ticking 'Get Quotes' on additional
> securities to find the problem ones.
> 
> Regards, Chris Good
> 
> This of course is assuming they don't already all work from the 'Get Quotes'
> button...
> 
> Regards, Chris Good
> 

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately I couldn't reproduce this issue any more. I'm not sure whether it's related to the fact that I installed a bunch of libraries which I intended to build gnucash myself.

I will keep you posted once the issue can be reproduced again.

Best,
Hong