[GNC] Debug information to sort out Finance::Quote issue on macOS Ventura

[R Losey]

Thanks; my old Intel iMac would not upgrade; I assumed because it was
Intel, but I think it was just old (pre-Retina).

Thanks for the info.


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 1:55 PM Vincent Lucarelli <
vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> I’m running GnuCash on a Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019 with an 3.7 GHz 6-Core
> Intel Core i5 and Ventura 13.0.1.  I have an M1 MacBook, but don’t run
> GnuCash there.
>
> I didn’t follow the development of Ventura closely, so I don’t know when
> Apple changed course, but there are a few Intel models still supported (
> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213264).
>
> Best,
>
> Vince
>
> On Dec 16, 2022, at 2:18 PM, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure that Ventura does not work on Intel Macs... I suspect that
> Vincent has an M1 or M2 Mac.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:32 AM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> > On Dec 15, 2022, at 4:37 PM, Vincent Lucarelli <
>> vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I upgraded to macOS Ventura and am having trouble getting
>> Finance::Quote to work.
>> >
>> > gnc-fq-dump is working in the terminal (see shell output below), but in
>> GnuCash I get the error “There was a system error while retrieving the
>> price quotes.”
>> >
>> > Is there some way to get debugging output from the GnuCash app so I can
>> see what call is being made and what error is occurring?
>>
>> If you're trying to use iexcloud in GnuCash and you have an Intel mac
>> then the problem is most likely that iexcloud key. GnuCash doesn't read the
>> environment set in the shell's .*profile so you'll have to add it as an
>> environment variable to the environment file, see
>> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#File_environment.local
>> .
>>
>> There's another problem with newer F::Q modules requiring an api key:
>> Many of them don't have an associated environment variable and expect the
>> api_key to be passed as a parameter and Finance::Quote doesn't expose any
>> way to discover whether a module requires a key making it rather difficult
>> for GnuCash to support them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
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