What happens when you try gnc-fq-dump ? Maybe your quote source changed their website?
-derek Richard Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was using GNUCash 2.0.5 on Ubuntu 7.04 for the last several months. Set up > some stock investments and downloaded stock prices with Tools -> Price Editor > -> Get Quotes. This worked ok until about 3 weeks ago. Now I get a message > "There was an unknown error while retrieving the price quotes." > > I did install a firewall management program called "Firestarter" between the > time gnucash was working and when it stopped working... I've since > uninstalled Firestarter. I tried getting stock quotes after stopping my > firewall using "/etc/init.d/iptables stop". No difference. > > I also upgraded to gnucash 2.2.1. No dice. > > I uninstalled gnucash altogether and reinstalled it, but still getting the > same message. > > I even thought of uninstalling perl as the module gnucash uses to get the > quotes is in perl... but, it seems that many apps on my system depend on > perl... on my ubuntu system, if I try to uninstall perl, it also includes (to > uninstall) pretty much all the apps I've installed.. does that sound > correct...? > > Anyway, my beef isn't really with perl, although it seems that if there was > something goes wrong with perl, alot of things depending on it would also go > down.... I just want to get my stock quotes so I can see my current asset > values to make decisions without pulling out the calculator. > > Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem? Thanks. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
