[railroad-dev] Some help wanted

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

> Trying to install RR without database the script repoadmin.py failed because 
> there was not the Module admconf. admconf is built only if there is a DB
> support. So I am trying to install Postgre and now it tell me that it can not
> connect :
> +++++
> sgi4:/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4 postgre$ python repoadm.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "repoadm.py", line 23, in ?
>     CON = DB.connect(admconf.dbopts)
>   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 104, in connect
>     _db = DBConn(dbopts)
>   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 22, in __init__
>     self.connect(dbopts)
>   File "/Users/jrc/Desktop/railroad-0.1.4/db_pg.py", line 58, in connect
>     _db = SQL.connect(dsn, minconn=min_conns, maxconn=max_conns, 
> serialize=0)
> psycopg.OperationalError: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>         Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> 
> +++++++
> 
> To check this is working and not working...
> 
> +++++++
> sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -p 5432 dav
> Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> 
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
> 
> dav=# \q
> sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -h localhost -p 5432 dav
> psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>         Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?
> ++++++
> 
> I got something strange
> 
> ++++++
> sgi4:/usr/local/share postgre$ psql -h "" -p 5432 dav
> Welcome to psql 7.4.6, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> 
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
> 
> dav=#
> ++++++

If I understand you correctly, if you leave the host string empty when using 
psql you *can* connect, but not with 'localhost'. This sounds like something 
strange with the Postgresql setup/configuration...

Now I also understand why you tried to leave step 13 of mk_conf.py empty. I do 
think however that tjhe scripts expects a non-empty host string. Does the 
machine have another hostname associated? Can you use that instead to try?

HTH

regards
jw

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Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
jw at infrae.com