[Bigjob-users] Reg: An issue while running a test Bigjob

[Ole Weidner]

Hi,

I don't see how http://faust.cct.lsu.edu/trac/bigjob/wiki/ce would help in this case. Frankly, I don't understand the "fix" at all. There's no explanatio. Also, please note the subtile difference between Muralidhar's problem:

Unable to establish connection to database_connection: dbname='advertdb' host='localhost' password='<password>' port='5432' user='<username>'

and the one in the FAQ section:

Unable to establish connection to database_connection: dbname='advertdb' host='advert.cct.lsu.edu' password='<password>' port='8080' user='<username>' 

IMHO the role of the advert service is not made very clear in the BigJob documentation and could easily become a stumbling block for the casual BigJob user without any SAGA experience. In general, I think that this needs to be addressed one way (replacing advert with something else) or the other (make it more transparent to the user) in order to make BigJob more user-friendly. I think the 'legendary' HECToR project made the same suggestion a while ago ;-) 

Cheers,
Ole


On Nov 26, 2011, at 10:52 PM, pradeep kumar Mantha wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Please find the solution at  FAQ's & mailing list->common errors on bigjob [ http://faust.cct.lsu.edu/trac/bigjob/] website.
> 
> Please let me know if it doesn't work.
> 
> thanks
> pradeep
> 
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Muralidhar Chouhan <cmural1 at tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:
> Dear bigjob-users,
> 
> I have installed the Bigjob on Futuregrid (alamo), but i am facing issues while running any test jobs on the machine. I have tested the successful installation of SAGA and Bigjob by running the following two lines in the python shell.
> 
> import saga
> import bigjob
> 
> There is a test-bigjob mentioned in the installation guide, i tried to run the same. It shows following error.
> 
> "pilot_dir = saga.advert.directory(saga.url(pilot_url), saga.advert.Create | saga.advert.CreateParents | saga.advert.ReadWrite)
> saga.no_success: SAGA(NoSuccess): default_advert: Unable to establish connection to database_connection: dbname='advertdb' host='localhost' password='<password>' port='5432' user='<username>' Cannot establish connection to the database: could not connect to server: Connection refused
>         Is the server running on host "localhost" and accepting
>         TCP/IP connections on port 5432?"
> 
> Please find the attachment of the text file containing the entire error output.please help.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Muralidhar Chouhan
> 
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