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

[Vincent Lucarelli]

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 <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
>> > On Dec 15, 2022, at 4:37 PM, Vincent Lucarelli <vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com <mailto: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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