[Pkg-sql-ledger-discussion] Bug#758140: LedgerSMB 1.3.40-1 for Ubuntu

[RJ Clay]

Vladimir,


On 08/15/2014 06:02 AM, Robert J. Clay wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Vladimir Botka <vlado at netng.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:55:18 -0400
>> RJ Clay <jame at rocasa.us> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/06/2014 08:48 AM, RJ Clay wrote:
>>>>     It also has already been sync'ed over to Ubuntu, and I'll be
>>>> working on backports there as well.
>>> Back ported versions of 1.3.40 for Ubuntu v12.04 ('precise') and
>>> v14.04 ('trusty') are now available from the LedgerSMB Launchpad PPA:
>>> https://launchpad.net/~ledgersmb/+archive/ubuntu/main/+packages
>>> ....
>> thank you for the backport and for the heads-up. I've installed
>> LedgerSMB on 'trusty' and during the configuration steps (below) I've
>> landed with the error message:
>> "database: ERROR: syntax error at or near "#" LINE 1: # Configure
>> ledgersmb user permissions"

    Note that a bug has been raised in Debian regarding this issue, #758140.  There is also a 
related but more general bug in Debian (#698298)  and the corresponding bug for that in Ubuntu 
(#1078817, where it was originally raised).  All of these have to do with using dbconfig-common 
in the configuration step as part of the package installation;  that package has a lot of 
problems (which is why it experimently and is disabled by default)  and as we really only need 
to set up the LedgerSMB database administrative user, I will be working on an updated LSMB 
package that does not use dbconfig-common at all.


>> There are 4 options how to proceed: abort, retry, retry (skip
>> questions), ignore.
>>
>> Would it be possible to help me to figure out how to proceed?

    As noted before;  abort out of that and redo that with the configuation step disabled. (If 
necessary, run 'dpkg-reconfigure ledgersmb'.)  Then set the password manually on the 'ledgersmb' 
admin user as necessary, as noted in the README.Debian file.





Robert James Clay
jame at rocasa.us