Re: Login problems

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> To the Glom developers,
>
> I'm a medium-level computer user who happens to be using Ubuntu. Glom
> seems to be the answer to my database GUI prayers, but I get stuck at
> the login screen. I'm trying this right now:
>
> Host: localhost
> User: joshua [my Ubuntu username]
> Password: [my Ubuntu password]
>
> It fails, and suggests that I may be giving incorrect login information,
> or that a Postgre database server isn't running.
>
> I've tried installing the Ubuntu package postgresql-8.1 and its
> dependencies, but no dice. Do I have to manually "start up" postgre? Am
> I giving wrong login information?

Have you done the post-installation?:
http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Initial_Postgres_Configuration

What version of Ubuntu is this?

There are various ideas about how to make this initial setup easier, but
it's all going to take time.

Murray Cumming
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