Re: [Gnumed-devel] From scratch Debian Lenny install - problems

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:54:54AM -0300, Rogerio Luz wrote:

> Ok so I got my hands on a new Laptotp and am thinking of using it in
> production instead of my PC.

Works well, I have users doing so.

[...]
> After this I made a gnome-core / gdm desktop instalation with apt-get and a
> gnumed-client instalation (wich installed 0.28...).

Sounds reasonable so far ...

> *** NOW STARTS PROBLEMS
> 
> First GNUmed would not start ... it was lacking the gnumed.conf file, so I
> had to copy it from /root/.gnumed/ directory.

In the 0.3 release we have put a lot of work into mitigating
this. Now one does not have to create a gnumed.conf in the
homedir anymore. GNUmed creates it where necessary. It also
reads information from other places.

> Then the PostgreSQL wasn´t configured right, all the files were in
> /usr/share/postgresql/ and the server was not running.

That certainly does sound like a one-time issue and is
surely not expected to happen. If this is reproducible it
would be a release critical bug for Debian Testing and you
should report it.

> - This was fixed with a "aptitude purge postgres? && aptitude install
> postgres"
That would likely fix it, yes.

> *** END of PROBLEMS

> After these fixes, bootstrapped via net-install-server.sh to v_9 and started
> GNUmed 0.28 (wich connected to v_8) and all is well on production land...
:-)

> I think there should be some warning on the wiki about these issues since
> people are going to start to "apt-get install gnumed-client" and it will not
> "imediatelly" work as expected.

The config file thing is worth a comment, yes, but the PG
one is entirely unexpected and has nothing to do with GNUmed
as such.

> But it does work and it is easy to configure IF you folow ALL the wiki.
Thanks for explicitely saying so because people searching
the list archive will, naturally, mostly find problem reports.

>  The "Configure Postgres" page is a little strange since there is 2 times
> you need to edit the pg_hba.conf file (instead of just having one big
> alteration), I see this is for different things, but we could make ONE
> alteration with coments on the part that is optional, if there are any
> optional parts (I always just put all the alterations in there and it worked
> so far).

For bootstrapping the server there should not be ANY
alteration necessary. For running the client there is
exactly ONE such change.

I have applied some editorialization so maybe that helps.

> There it is ... a non-TI guide on how to make production GNUmed from scratch
> :)

:-)

Karsten
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