[campcaster-dev] Re: Setting up development environment
  • Hi Eric,

    Sorry but I am in studio, doing some recording and edits the rest of the
    day, but wil forward your message to get response.


    Frans van Berckel



    On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:24 -0400, Eric Botosan wrote:
    > Hi Frans,
    >
    > I would love to have submitted this question through the development
    > forum, but I don't seem to be able register for it (I've tried twice).
    >
    > I've had tremendous difficulty trying to get Campcaster installed and
    > stable. The current release was fine until a couple of days ago when,
    > suddenly and inexplicably, I lost contact with the storage server.
    > Virtually nothing would work. I tried several complete re-installs,
    > following the advice in the "Known Bugs in Version 1.10" page. Every
    > re-installation results in the same thing...I get a partially working
    > system that can't bring in any audio clips (actually, it sort of does
    > it...with all files indicated as "Empty file"), campcaster-import -l
    > works for about 6 songs and terminates without any error messages (it
    > does however display what appears to be part of the import code!).
    >
    > With all these problems I figured I may as well give the development
    > environment a try. This is how the compile/install process terminates:
    >
    > *************************
    > * StorageServer Install *
    > *************************
    > DB Error: connect failed
    > [nativecode=pg_pconnect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server:
    > FATAL: database "Campcaster-root" does not exist] **
    > pgsql(pgsql)://test:PASSWORD@localhost/Campcaster-root
    > Database connection problem.
    > Check if database 'Campcaster-root' exists with corresponding
    > permissions.
    > make: [db_init] Error 1 (ignored)
    > chgrp www-data ./var/stor ./var/access ./var/trans ./var/stor/buffer
    > chgrp: cannot access `./var/stor': No such file or directory
    > chgrp: cannot access `./var/access': No such file or directory
    > chgrp: cannot access `./var/trans': No such file or directory
    > chgrp: cannot access `./var/stor/buffer': No such file or directory
    > make: *** [db_init] Error 1
    > make: Leaving directory
    > `/home/eric/src/campcaster/src/modules/storageServer'
    >
    >
    > Checking psql, there is, in fact, no Campcaster-root db. As to the
    > remainder of the error messages...none of the mentioned directories
    > exists.
    >
    > Any ideas? I'd love to work with this product...I've enjoyed Campcaster
    > a whole lot in the brief time I've been able to work with it.
    >
    > Sorry to bother you, but if you can suggest something I'd really
    > appreciate it.
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > Eric Botosan
    >
    >