[Bond-users] Problems obtaining database connection in Bond

[Dru Hill]

you need to provide a password. Its complaining because postgresql 
requests a password.
connect to any postgresql database

and do
psql alter user howard with password '123';




Howard Hamilton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed Bond/Bonddb 3.1.3 on my Linux box a few days ago 
> (Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, PostgreSQL 8.4) and I am attempting to run a Bond 
> script that I designed while I was using OpenSuSE 11.1.  When I run the 
> script I get the following output:
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> ~/projects/database/frontend$ bondfrontend
> Reading configuration file: bondfrontend.conf.
> Shared configuration file not found: shell.conf
> ================================================================================
> ================================================================================
> Checking UI library: /usr/local/lib/libbond_uigtk.so
> Loading gtk+-2.0 user interface library.
> UI plugin /usr/local/lib/libbond_uigtk.so successfully loaded.
> User interface is now initialised.
> Connecting to database: dbname=fmrd_test connect_timeout=5 user=howard 
> host=localhost
> Checking library: /usr/local/lib/libbonddb2_pgsql.so for pgsql
> Library /usr/local/lib/libbonddb2_pgsql.so successfully loaded.
> Loaded library: /usr/local/lib/libbonddb2_pgsql.so
> Error: bonddb/bonddbinit.c: 295: bonddb_init(): Connection to database 
> failed with dbname=fmrd_test connect_timeout=5 user=howard 
> host=localhost argument.
> fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> 
> 
> (bondfrontend:8921): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion 
> `hash_table != NULL' failed
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> I am not sure why Bond if failing to connect with the database.  I am 
> almost certain that I have the settings of PostgreSQL correct because I 
> was able to execute my Perl script that set up the fmrd_test database 
> with just my username as an input.  Here are the settings of my 
> pg_hba.conf file:
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> # Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
> local   all         postgres                          ident
> 
> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD
> 
> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
> local   all         all                               trust
> # IPv4 local connections:
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32 
> <http://127.0.0.1/32>          trust
> # IPv6 local connections:
> host    all         all         ::1/128               md5
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Am I missing something here?  I used Perl on my old OpenSuSE 
> distribution and it eventually worked without having to tweak the 
> Postgres settings; I am at a loss as to why it's no longer working on my 
> new Ubuntu distribution.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
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