Forum OpenACS Development: Error on OS X using install-ns.sh

First off I had a problem creating the user

I ended up using this script http://superuser.com/a/547151

but it doesn't create the group.
I tried dscl . -create /Groups/nsadmin

then I got illegal group name error:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 tdomConfig.sh /usr/local/ns/lib
Installing header files in /usr/local/ns/include
Installing ../generic/tdom.h
Installing documentation in /usr/local/ns/man
Installing ../doc/dom.n
Installing ../doc/domDoc.n
Installing ../doc/domNode.n
Installing ../doc/expat.n
Installing ../doc/expatapi.n
Installing ../doc/tdomcmd.n
Installing ../doc/tnc.n
chgrp: nsadmin: illegal group name

Possibly the script needs to be updated?

Just now, i've further extended the script, such it creates the specified group with a fresh ID and the specified user when necessary. The updated version is on github.

1) You can't run naviserver without setting path if you have another version of postgresql installed. I use the homebrew installed postgresql.

Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

It is running but the socket file is in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
Some answers suggest creating a symlink. That is one option. It seems to solve the problem.

sudo mkdir /var/pgsql_socket
sudo ln -s /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 /var/pgsql_socket/

I am not sure if this will survive a restart of postgresql.

After this I found a bug in tdom pkgIndex.tcl, a missing space.

error reading package index file /usr/local/ns/lib/tdom0.8.3/pkgIndex.tcl: expected version number but got "0.8.3"load"

IIRC, when compiling PG manually the default location of the socket is in /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432. When using PG from the distribution, it is somewhere else.

Anyhow, when I install OpenACS, I typically use a wrapper script for starting NaviServer, which includes the PATH to PG. To be honest, I dont know if this is (still) really needed, but maybe it helps?


function install_nsd_pg {
# Add wrapper script
local NSD_PREFIX=$1
local PG_VERSION=$2
local PG_PREFIX=$3

cat <<EOF > ${NSD_PREFIX}/bin/nsd-pg${PG_VERSION}
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=\$PATH:${PG_PREFIX}/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${PG_PREFIX}/lib:${NSD_PREFIX}/lib
ulimit -c unlimited
exec ${NSD_PREFIX}/bin/nsd \$*
EOF
chmod 755 ${NSD_PREFIX}/bin/nsd-pg${PG_VERSION}
}
# Set vars as needed....
install_nsd_pg $PREFIX_NS $POSTGRES_VERSION $PREFIX_POSTGRES


So my naviserver db driver is using the wrong PG library and I'll track that down.

otool -L nsdbpg.so
nsdbpg.so:
/usr/local/ns/lib/libnsdb.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.5.0)
/usr/local/ns/lib/libnsthread.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/local/ns/lib/libnsd.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/local/ns/lib/libtcl8.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.5.0, current version 8.5.18)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1197.1.1)

I had to re-run ns-install.sh. I did not realize I needed to change the paths to pglib and pginclude in the script before running it.

I learned my lesson. Again than you for your patience.