Re: off topic: how to "start" Glom

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:35 +0100, Nicolas Chevreux wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Murray Cumming wrote in an email dated 02-Nov-05 08:57:
> > Yes, and that's mentioned in the instructions. Nicolas, did you do that?
>
> Yes, and it works now.
>
> I am not 100% sure about this, but it appears that if you create the 
> user in Postgres before allowing the access, Glom won't like it.

How did you "allow the access" exactly? I assume that "create the user
in Postgres" means using createuser (as on the wiki) but answering no
for the "can create new databases" question.

>  Anyway, 
> I deleted this user account (dropuser) and re-created it, and it works. 
> Thanks a lot for your help
>
> However, you were right, Glom crashes a lot,

The version in debian crashes often when adding new fields. I suspect
that's fixed in cvs.

>  and I don't think that I 
> will be able to use it. I can not access the the example database (it 
> gets created, but is empty),

Empty of data or empty of fields and/or tables?

Please do file bugs with the information, so we can fix things.

>  and the application closes every time I 
> make a wrong move. :-(
>
> Back to XP for me, I'm afraid.

It should be easy to make Glom run on XP too, if someone wants to try.

Murray