Hi there, I'm trying to setup postgres for galaxy, and this should be easy... nevertheless I get authentication errors as I start galaxy. I'm not a postgres expert, but this line

local all all ident sameuser

in pg_hba.conf should enable access to local users but then:

$ ./run.sh […] galaxy.model.migrate.check DEBUG 2010-05-20 14:11:02,248 psycopg2 egg successfully loaded for postgres dialect Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/galaxy_dist/lib/galaxy/web/buildapp.py", line 61, in app_factory app = UniverseApplication( global_conf = global_conf, **kwargs ) File "/data/galaxy_dist/lib/galaxy/app.py", line 28, in __init__ create_or_verify_database( db_url, self.config.database_engine_options ) File "/data/galaxy_dist/lib/galaxy/model/migrate/check.py", line 54, in create_or_verify_database dataset_table = Table( "dataset", meta, autoload=True ) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 108, in __call__ return type.__call__(self, name, metadata, *args, **kwargs) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/schema.py", line 236, in __init__ _bind_or_error(metadata).reflecttable(self, include_columns=include_columns) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1261, in reflecttable conn = self.contextual_connect() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/threadlocal.py", line 194, in contextual_connect return self.session.get_connection(**kwargs) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/threadlocal.py", line 20, in get_connection return self.engine.TLConnection(self, self.engine.pool.connect(), close_with_result=close_with_result) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 151, in connect agent = _ConnectionFairy(self) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 304, in __init__ rec = self._connection_record = pool.get() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 161, in get return self.do_get() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 639, in do_get con = self.create_connection() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 122, in create_connection return _ConnectionRecord(self) File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 198, in __init__ self.connection = self.__connect() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/pool.py", line 261, in __connect connection = self.__pool._creator() File "/data/galaxy_dist/eggs/SQLAlchemy-0.5.6_dev_r6498-py2.5.egg/sqlalchemy/engine/strategies.py", line 80, in connect raise exc.DBAPIError.instance(None, None, e) OperationalError: (OperationalError) FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "galaxy" None None

This is true for root also. Any hint appreciated :-)

d

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