Re: [gnome-db] mergeant help

[Jack Coates <jack lyris com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:20, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 23:37, Jack Coates wrote:
> > I'm trying to use mergeant on Mandrake cooker (guess it's 9.2 as of
> > today) and having trouble. I've installed gda-postgres, but there's no
> > providers of any sort in the drop-down: clicking the dropdown
> > consistently produces this error on standard out:
> > 
> > (mergeant:26468): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gtk/gtkmenu.c: line 865
> > (gtk_menu_popup): assertion `GTK_IS_MENU (menu)' failed
> > 
> > gda-test does see the provider and the ODBC provider, but can't connect
> > to the PG database on localhost; I can connect fine with psql though.
> > 
> > The following 2 GDA providers are available:
> > 1: OAFIID:GNOME_GDA_Provider_Default_Connection
> > 2: OAFIID:GNOME_GDA_Provider_Postgres_Connection
> > 
> ugh, what version are you running? That's very old!
> 
> cheers

yeah, seems that the Mandrake RPMs are out of step; mergeant was 0.12,
gda is 0.91, libgda is .96... I've urpme'd the whole lot and downloaded
the libgda 1.0.1 tarball, which is compiling right now.

gda-test is a lot different now... seems to be happy, but doesn't offer
an opportunity to, well, test the pg connection. I take it that's done
somewhere else now?

compiling libgnome-db now...

okay, so now there's a control center capplet where I can configure
databases, but no mergeant. It's referenced all over
http://www.gnome-db.org/, except the download page :-) Google can't find
it either, searching for mergeant source tarball download.

gda-test is spitting this out to stderr:
** (gda-test:18433): CRITICAL **: file gda-util.c: line 202
(gda_file_save): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

** (gda-test:18433): CRITICAL **: file gda-util.c: line 202
(gda_file_save): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

** (gda-test:18433): CRITICAL **: file gda-util.c: line 202
(gda_file_save): assertion `filename != NULL' failed

and says it can't connect:
Data source = postgres-lmdatabase, User = lmuser
** ERROR: could not open connection to postgres-lmdatabase

Looks like it's trying to use local IP instead of Unix domain sockets,
anywhere to change that?

giving up for tonight,
-- 
Jack Coates, Lyris Technologies Applications Engineer
510-549-4350 x148, jack lyris com