Re: newbie question: howto start using glom ?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:42 -0400, nwm csur ca wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> [Norman]
> >> ...
> >> Glom shows an "Open failed" alarm with "The document could not be
> >> opened".
> >> I click on the "OK" button.
> 
> [Murray]
> > So this is where it goes wrong. I've seen this happen once before, but I
> > can't reproduce it here now. Could you please file a bug, with the log
> > details that you found below. Maybe we can investigate it further.
> 
> I think it might be due to the pre-existing postgresql process
> monopolizing a resource the postgresql process started by glom
> does require in order to start - something like a socket or
> port number...  As a matter of fact, running "ps fax" (while
> glom was thus blocked waiting for postgresql) shows only a
> single postgresql set of processes: the pre-existing server
> and its children processes...  As if the postgresql process
> started by glom was blocked from starting by the system, i.e.:
> for lack of a necessary resource...

I don't think so. But you could test your theory by stopping the main
postgres server before starting glom. In Ubuntu you can do that with the
Services control panel.

> > But unfortunately for now I don't have a solution to this problem for
> > you.
> >
> > You might try creating from an example, but using the server instead of
> > the "in-a-folder" option. For that you will need to setup postgres
> > appropriately on your PC:
> > http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Initial_Postgres_Configuration
> 
> Indeed, that works!  Thanks a lot, Murray!

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