[GNC] Only 5 of 22 quotes were successful

Kalpesh Patel kalpesh.patel at usa.net
Tue Feb 3 10:20:33 EST 2026 

You'll need to manually install the missing module. At a command prompt run 
following:

cpanm JSON::Parse

You may need to do so other module(s) that may not be installed out-of-box.


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Excuse the typos. It's the mobile thingy!



On February 3, 2026 8:59:35 AM Morris Beavers <atomicpix86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gentlemen,
> I have followed Kalpesh's instructions.
> Then Start -> GnuCash -> Install F::Q which ended ">> Installation
> succeeded <<".
> Checked GnuCash:  About didn't report a version of F::Q; the Price Database
> didn't have the Get Quotes button enabled;
> the Security Editor reported on each security, "Warning: Finance:Quote not
> installed properly."; gnucash-cli --quotes info
> reports, "Failed to initialize Finance::Quote: missing_modules
> Finance::Quote JSON::Parse".
> Then, again, Start -> GnuCash -> Install F::Q which ended ">> Installation
> succeeded <<".
> Shutdown Windows and restarted Windows.
> Symptoms remained the same.
>
> Thanks, Morris
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
>
>> Do uninstall of Strawberry Perl from "Control Panel" --> "Program and
>> Features" before deleting C:\Strawberry directory.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
>> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2026 1:55 PM
>> To: Morris Beavers <atomicpix86 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Gnucash Users <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>> Subject: Re: [GNC] Only 5 of 22 quotes were successful
>>
>> Please remember to copy the list on all replies.
>>
>> You don’t have to upgrade GnuCash for this, just Finance::Quote.
>>
>> It looks from the output you attached that the perl OpenSSL and SSLEAY
>> have gotten out of sync. Here's the last bit of output for the list’s
>> benefit since I’m pretty rusty on Perl stuff:
>>
>> > t/local/03_use.t ............................ 1/1 # # Testing
>> > Net::SSLeay 1.94 # # Perl information:
>> > #   Version:         '5.032001'
>> > #   Executable path: 'C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe'
>> > #
>> > # Library version with OpenSSL_version_num():
>> > #   OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER: '0x1010109f'
>> > #
>> > # Library information with SSLeay_version() and OpenSSL_version():
>> > #   SSLEAY_VERSION:              'OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020'
>> > #   SSLEAY_CFLAGS:               'compiler: gcc -m64 -Wall -O3
>> -DL_ENDIAN -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_CPUID_OBJ -DOPENSSL_IA32_SSE2
>> -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_MONT5 -DOPENSSL_BN_ASM_GF2m
>> -DSHA1_ASM -DSHA256_ASM -DSHA512_ASM -DKECCAK1600_ASM -DRC4_ASM -DMD5_ASM
>> -DAESNI_ASM -DVPAES_ASM -DGHASH_ASM -DECP_NISTZ256_ASM -DX25519_ASM
>> -DPOLY1305_ASM -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -D_MT -DZLIB
>> -DNDEBUG -I/z/extlib/_openssl111__/include
>> -DOPENSSLBIN="\"/z/extlib/_openssl111__/bin\""'
>> > #   SSLEAY_BUILT_ON:             'built on: Sun Jan 24 10:44:55 2021 UTC'
>> > #   SSLEAY_PLATFORM:             'platform: mingw64'
>> > #   SSLEAY_DIR:                  'OPENSSLDIR:
>> "Z:/extlib/_openssl111__/ssl"'
>> > #   OPENSSL_ENGINES_DIR:         'ENGINESDIR:
>> "Z:/extlib/_openssl111__/lib/engines-1_1"'
>> > #   OPENSSL_MODULES_DIR:         'OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020'
>> > #   OPENSSL_CPU_INFO:            'OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020'
>> > #   OPENSSL_VERSION_STRING:      'OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020'
>> > #   OPENSSL_FULL_VERSION_STRING: 'OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020'
>> > t/local/03_use.t ............................ ok t/local/04_basic.t
>> > .......................... Prototype mismatch: sub
>> Net::SSLeay::randomize (;$$$) vs none at (eval 11) line 1.
>> > t/local/04_basic.t .......................... 1/29 Your vendor has not
>> defined SSLeay macro SSLEAY_VERSION at t/local/04_basic.t line 18.
>> > # Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 7.
>> > t/local/04_basic.t .......................... Dubious, test returned 2
>> > (wstat 512, 0x200) Failed 22/29 subtests t/local/05_passwd_cb.t
>> > ...................... Prototype mismatch: sub Net::SSLeay::randomize
>> (;$$$) vs none at (eval 11) line 1.
>> > t/local/05_passwd_cb.t ...................... 1/36 Your vendor has not
>> defined SSLeay macro FILETYPE_PEM at t/local/05_passwd_cb.t line 78.
>> > # Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 4.
>> > t/local/05_passwd_cb.t ...................... Dubious, test returned 2
>> > (wstat 512, 0x200) Failed 32/36 subtests t/local/06_tcpecho.t
>> > ........................ Prototype mismatch: sub Net::SSLeay::randomize
>> (;$$$) vs none at (eval 11) line 1.
>> > Your vendor has not defined SSLeay macro tcpcat at t/local/06_tcpecho.t
>> line 41.
>> > # Looks like your test exited with 25 just after 2.
>>
>> I suggest deleting the C:\Strawberry directory and re-running Install
>> Online Price Retrieval, but perhaps someone else can suggest a less drastic
>> fix.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>> > On Feb 2, 2026, at 10:38 AM, Morris Beavers <atomicpix86 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've got F::Q version 1.58 with my GnuCash 5.9 (fall of 2024).
>> > I've tried to run the Start -> GnuCash -> Install Online Price Retrieval
>> (output attached).
>> > The console appears to be hung - 10 minutes no output, tash manager
>> > shown no CPU activity on the CMD.
>> >
>> > Thanks very much for the information.
>> > I've decided in December not to upgrade my GnuCash for 2026.
>> >
>> > Best regards, Morris
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 10:39 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> > Looks like it’s already in Finance::Quote as of 2 months ago,
>> https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/blob/master/lib/Finance/Quote/AlphaVantage.pm#L43.
>> Do you have F::Q 1.68?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > John Ralls
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Feb 1, 2026, at 16:49, Morris Beavers <atomicpix86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The remaining 17 all had error messages:
>> >>
>> >> Finance::Quote reported failure with error: Thank you for using Alpha
>> >> Vantage! Please consider spreading out your free API requests more
>> >> sparingly (11 request per second).    They want requests less frequent
>> than
>> >> 1/sec.
>> >>
>> >> I've looked for a configuration setting in GnuCash and Finance::Quote
>> >> to reduce my request rate but couldn't identify a suitable setting.
>> >>
>> >> I would eagerly write a script for GnuCash-cli to pull each of my 22
>> >> securities but the tool doesn't seem to support --quote of a single
>> >> security specified on the command line and saved in the Price Database.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have a slowdown solution to my issue?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, Morris
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