[GNC] Can anyone help with this issue please - GNC-FQ Not able to collect data

[david.romano at davidjromano.com]

Hi Bruce, the headline news is that your suggestion fixed the issue - see gnu.png - very many thanks to you (and Chris and Geoff) for your help, expertise and patience.

Here's the detail:

a) Running cpan> force install IO::Handle made no difference.

b) Reinstalling Strawberry Perl appeared to make no difference

	 BUT:

	1) A residual directory C: Strawberry with a date of 2016 remained. I deleted this.

	2) I re-ran the Cpan upgrade utility

		cpan> upgrade

This process took considerably longer than previously (about 5-10 minutes (I went to get a coffee so I'm not sure) - on a 64gb Xeon SSD machine!) and appeared, from the cmd prompt window trace, to have been a much more comprehensive build than the earlier one.

On opening GNC the currencies list was fully instantiated and Get Quotes button returned and loaded the current value of EUR against GBP apparently in real time because the rate changes on re-clicking.

Again very many thanks for all your help - I couldn't have done it without you.

Best regards,

Davide

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> 
Sent: 22 July 2021 17:26
To: david.romano at davidjromano.com; gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Can anyone help with this issue please - GNC-FQ Not able to collect data

David,

While that was worth a check, it is concerning that CPAN itself on your system appears to be having issues.

The repeated error

"syswrite() on unopened filehandle GEN3 at C:\Strawberry\perl\lib/IO/Handle.pm line 459.
LWP failed with code[500] message[write failed: Bad file descriptor]"

is likely an indication that there is an issue with your installation of Strweberry Perl. I would guess that whatever issue it may be, it is the cause of your issues with Finance::Quote.

I would try:

1: Reinstall IO::Handle
cpan> force install IO::Handle

2: *Completely* remove Strawberry Perl and reinstall from scratch. 
Somewhere in this thread I think you may have done this, but try once again please.

- Bruce S.

On 7/22/21 2:48 AM, david.romano at davidjromano.com wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> I just checked this and it did not fix the issue -  see attached
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David Romano,
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com>
> Sent: 21 July 2021 22:37
> To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Cc: david.romano at davidjromano.com
> Subject: ***SPAM*** Re: [GNC] Can anyone help with this issue please - 
> GNC-FQ Not able to collect data
> 
> David,
> 
> I've been testing installs of F::Q on different operating systems.
> 
> An install of F::Q 1.51 on a MacBook running OSX Catalina (10.15.7) and Perl 5.34.0 installed via HomeBrew uncovered an issue where the DistZilla tool used to build the package for uploading to CPAN did not automatically the dependency on LWP::Protocol::https.
> 
> Please ensure that you have LWP::Protocol::https installed and test again.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> - Bruce S.
> 

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