Re: [Gnumed-devel] Postgres 8.4.4-1 (Enterprise db) problems -- system hosed?

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-07-01, at 2:51 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

>> I am getting closer... I now got up to v6-v7... attached is the bottom
>> portion of the log
>> 
>> ==> bootstrapping "v6-v7-static" ...
>> ==> cloning [gnumed_v6] (19 MB) as target database [gnumed_v7] ...
>> ==> transferring users ...
>> ==> bootstrapping "v6-v7-dynamic" ...
>> ==> setting up auditing ...
>>   ... skipped (disabled)
>> ==> setting up notifications ...
>>   ... skipped (disabled)
>> ==> upgrading reference data sets ...
>> closing open connection from: database.__connect_owner_to_db via
>> database.__connect_superuser_to_db <connection object at 0x101386e00; dsn:
>> 'dbname=gnumed_v7 port=5432 user=postgres password=xxxxxxxx
>> sslmode=prefer', closed: 0> Bootstrapping failed: unhandled exception
>> occurred
>> 
> 
> Been there :-)
> 
> The solution is to copy everything into /tmp and bootstrap from there.

The above problem was (I think) distinct from the problem with UTF8 and 
clusters. Does the exception above likely arise from some issue of file 
permissions (ownership) when a user would have downloaded the server files into 
personal user space, and then tried to run the installer as root-becoming(su 
to)-postgres ?

-- Jim