[ome-users] Cannot Initialize the Django settings database (fwd)

[Chris Allan]

Hi Bernie,

The simple answer is that your home directory permissions are  
insufficient to execute those commands.

As the "omero" user:

chmod +rx ~/

That should be sufficient for you to sudo and run the commands.

-Chris

On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:00, Bernie Broughton wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> --On 28 May 2009 17:34 +0100 Chris Allan <callan at blackcat.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bernie,
>>
>> Is it possible you have home directory permissions issues?
>>
>> sudo -u apache -s
>> ls -al /home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python
>
> typing: sudo -u apache -s (as root)
>
> gives:
> bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied
> bash-3.2$
>
> subsequently, then typing: ls -al /home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python
>
> gives:
> ls: /home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python: Permission denied
>
>> To avoid this problem:
>>
>> Run the "syncdb" as the "omero" user.
>>
>> chown -R omero /home/omero/weblog /home/omero/webdb
>> python manage.py syncdb
>
> I can do this, but syncdb seems to run silently for a few seconds  
> and I get the prompt back.
>
> However, this is really just to close the thread. The server is  
> running virtualised on XEN on an Athlon workstation (along with 3  
> others!) and was done this way  simply to see if we could establish  
> a server and show it to potential users here. It is of course a  
> little slow and not a practical proposition.
>
> In the next couple of weeks I'll install Omero on a workstation and  
> let you know either way if I'm successful.
>
> Bernie
>
> Bernie Broughton
> IT Manager
> Genome Damage and Stability Centre
> University of Sussex
> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/phone/details.php?id=19643