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

[Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>]

At 15:38 07.06.01 +0100, nick@brainstorm.co.uk 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