Derek, I finally resolved my problem... took a little head scratching.
I forgot I modified my hosts file as specified by: ad blocker <http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html> this modifies the hosts file so that all known advertising sources are aliased to 127.0.0.1 I was trying to pinpoint exactly which advertising source Finance::Quotes modules requires to get the stock quotes, but it seems like it changes... seems like the authors of Finance::Quotes are involved in some advertising scheme... hope they are not sending other info, in particular, my financial information to these advertisers. You're a security guy... what do you make of this? Richard Derek Atkins wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
