[check_postgres] install (test) problems

[Rob Sargent]

After perl Makefile.PL;make;make test; my directory looks like this

drwxr-sr-x 8 rob postgres   4096 2009-05-19 09:20 blib
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rob postgres 221259 2009-05-04 18:31 check_postgres.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres    163 2009-05-04 18:29 check_postgres.pl.asc
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres  94315 2009-05-04 07:29 check_postgres.pl.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres  21749 2009-05-19 09:20 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres   2161 2009-05-04 09:54 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres    894 2009-05-04 07:30 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres    111 2009-05-04 11:07 MANIFEST.SKIP
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres   1564 2009-05-01 12:46 META.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres      0 2009-05-19 09:20 pm_to_blib
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres   2116 2009-05-01 12:18 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 rob postgres   3930 2009-05-04 18:29 SIGNATURE
drwxr-sr-x 2 rob postgres   4096 2009-05-04 18:35 t
drwxr-sr-x 2 rob postgres   4096 2009-05-19 09:26 
test_database_check_postgres


I chose to use the postgres group hoping to alleviate the permissions 
problem, but I still get

     make test
    PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
    "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
    t/00_basic................ok
    t/00_signature............skipped
            all skipped: Set the environment variable TEST_SIGNATURE to
    enable this test
    t/00_test_tester..........# Creating database in directory
    "test_database_check_postgres"
    Could not open "test_database_check_postgres/data
    space/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory
    # Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
    t/00_test_tester..........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
    DIED. FAILED test 1
        Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
    t/02_autovac_freeze.......Gave up waiting for
    test_database_check_postgres/pg.log to say it was ready
    # Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
    t/02_autovac_freeze.......dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
    DIED. FAILED tests 1-8
        Failed 8/8 tests, 0.00% okay

and looking in test_database_check_postgres/pg.log we see

    postgres cannot access the server configuration file
    "/home/rob/tools/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.8.0/test_database_check_postgres/
    data space/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory

So it appear the a) postgres user is trying to read a file from a 
directory that did not get created.

Sorry my first post was a little light on details: Thought it might be 
something other's had seen and the details were actually in-accessible 
at the time of the writing.

rjs



Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Rob Sargent wrote:
>> I'm running ubuntu-8.10. I've downloaded v-2.8.1 of check-postgres.  
>> 'make test' fails completely due to permission problems on the directory 
>> created for the tests' data.
>>
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>
> Does the user you are running the test as have rights to create subdirectories
> in the current directory? It should be doing an initdb to create the
> "test_database_check_postgres" directory and thus have full permissions. Can you
> paste the exact error seen?
>