[GNC] Stock quotes hung

[Maf. King]

On Monday, 9 October 2023 16:52:17 BST David Carlson wrote:
> Not sure exactly what happened in your case.  But usually, if you can put
> the focus on the "frozen" process, then Alt-F4 will kill it.
> 
> > There are other ways as well in Linux, for example with htop.

Ctrl-Alt-Escape is quite good at killing a stuck process, as long as it has a 
window open.   Quick too....



> 
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, 10:13 AM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am back home and stock quotes is working fine.
> > So, my problem must have been a very slow internet connection.
> > It would be nice if there were some way to cancel a stock quote fetch
> > in progress.  I had to reboot the entire Linux system before.
> > 
> > On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 3:25 PM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > I was wrong.  The gnucash-cli command, after a couple of minutes, did
> > > finish.
> > > And looking at the price history, it did get the AT&T price for
> > 
> > yesterday.
> > 
> > > So, it looks like things are very slow for some reason.
> > > Perhaps the internet at this airbnb is causing problems.
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:19 PM Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >> I have removed Get Quotes for all of my stocks and have just GBP
> > 
> > currency
> > 
> > >> getting quotes.
> > >> Doing the gnucash-cli command works.
> > >> 
> > >> If I add in just one stock (T == AT&T), gnucash-cli hangs.
> > >> 
> > >> I tried adding in --debug to that gnucash-cli, but nothing stood out as
> > 
> > a
> > 
> > >> problem.
> > >> 
> > >> Suggestions?
> > 
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