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

[Chris Allan]

Hi Bernie,

Is it possible you have home directory permissions issues?

sudo -u apache -s
ls -al /home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python

To avoid this problem:

Run the "syncdb" as the "omero" user.

chown -R omero /home/omero/weblog /home/omero/webdb
python manage.py syncdb

And then chown the directories recursively afterwards:

chown -R apache:apache /home/omero/weblog /home/omero/webdb

I'm in the middle of adjusting the documentation to avoid this little
slip up and to add Mathieu's comment about SELinux.

Ciao.

-Chris

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:04 -0400, Mathieu Marchand wrote:
> Hi Bernie
> 
> sudo -u apache PYTHONPATH=/home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python/ python
> manage.py syncdb
> 
> worked for me to sync the omero.web database on a vanilla centos 5
> install and omero 4.0.2
> 
> you need to run the command as the apache user (on centos it will be
> "apache") as it will be the user that will later be accessing the
> database through apache and mod_python (if i am right)
> 
> I also had to deactivate SELINUX and reboot Centos because it was
> messing around with mod_python and omero.web. Maybe you will need to
> do that too.
> 
> Mat
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Bernie Broughton
> <b.broughton at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Paulo,
> >
> > --On 28 May 2009 15:37 +0100 Paulo Almeida <palmeida at igc.gulbenkian.pt>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> There is probably something wrong with the PYTHONPATH , because python is
> >> not  finding the django modules. If you do:
> >>
> >> ls /home/omero/omero_dist/lib/python/
> >>
> >> do you see anything? Did you really install it under omero_dist or is
> >> there a  version name there?
> >
> > The python directory is there with a load of other stuff including a django
> > directory:
> > drwxr-xr-x 7 omero omero     36864 May 27 16:20 python
> >
> > and in django:
> > drwxr-xr-x 17 omero omero   4096 May  8 12:33 django
> >
> > This is when I'm logged on as root or omero.
> >
> > Followed Chris's recent instructions on how to do a Vanilla Centos 5.3
> > installation.
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> > Bernie Broughton
> > IT Manager
> > Genome Damage and Stability Centre
> > University of Sussex
> > http://www.sussex.ac.uk/USIS/phone/details.php?id=19643
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