Re: gnatsd: Could not resolve database alias? (and suggestions)

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 15:38 07.06.01 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> I get this error when trying to run gnatsweb:
>
> "Error: Could not resolve database alias (Brainstorm)."
>
> I had gnats/gnatsweb working just 2 weeks ago on another machine, but
> now have reinstalled it with "--with-gnats-root=/home/gnats/gnats-db".
> Could this be the difference?  I can't think what else it could be.
>
> The pulldown database widget on the gnatsweb login page is empty, yet I
> can do this fine:
>
> gnats> cat /tmp/bugpr | queue-pr -q
> gnats> queue-pr --run
>
> The config file is setup with our database name "Brainstorm" obviously.

Are you 100% sure that your /etc/gnats-db.conf file contains the line
/home/gnats/gnats-db:Brainstorm

If you have this line, try changing 'Brainstorm' to 'brainstorm' and see if 
that makes a difference (it shouldn't, but you never know)


> It sounds like a gnatsweb error, but the message is coming from the
> gnats code itself.  Any help appreciated.
>
> Also, a couple of suggestions:
>
> 1) It doesn't make sense to me for the file generated by mkcat
> (Brianstorm in our case) to be in <prefix>/share/gnats rather than
> <GNATS_ROOT>/gnats-db...

No, probably not. This is different in version4, though, where category 
directories are created on-the-fly as needed.

> 2) I found Gnats didn't work when I had a space in the category or
> submitter ID - it would be good if we could use real product and company
> names as the submitter IDs instead of names with underscores.

This suggestion makes sense. Version 4 might allow spaces, but I haven't 
tested it.

> Otherwise keep up the good work - I'm looking forward to gnats4!

Thanks.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer