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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0006508 | Taler | taler-merchant-demos | public | 2020-08-22 20:04 | 2021-08-24 14:23 |
| Reporter | Christian Grothoff | Assigned To | Christian Grothoff | Resolution deadline | |
| Implementer | Reviewer | ||||
| Release signed by | Deployed by | ||||
| Verifier | Communicator | ||||
| Data protection authority notification required | No | ||||
| CSIRT notification required | No | ||||
| Estimated effort (hours) | Actual effort (hours) | 0 | |||
| Fast-track | No | ||||
| Work package | none | ||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | i7 | OS | Debian GNU/Linux | OS Version | squeeze |
| Product Version | git (master) | ||||
| Target Version | 0.8 | Fixed in Version | 0.8 | ||
| Summary | 0006508: launching taler-merchant-demos fails with strange error | ||||
| Description | After configuring the port, I get: $ taler-merchant-demos --serve-http blog WARNING:taler.util.talerconfig:no base directory found *** Starting uWSGI 2.0.19.1 (64bit) on [Sat Aug 22 21:54:49 2020] *** compiled with version: 8.4.0 on 04 July 2020 21:45:29 os: Linux-4.19.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.132-1 (2020-07-24) nodename: lifeline machine: x86_64 clock source: unix pcre jit disabled detected number of CPU cores: 32 current working directory: /home/grothoff/research/taler/taler-merchant-demos detected binary path: /home/grothoff/.local/bin/uwsgi your processes number limit is 256903 your memory page size is 4096 bytes detected max file descriptor number: 1024 lock engine: pthread robust mutexes thunder lock: disabled (you can enable it with --thunder-lock) uWSGI http bound on :8080 fd 4 uwsgi socket 0 bound to TCP address 127.0.0.1:35301 (port auto-assigned) fd 3 Python version: 3.8.5 (default, Aug 2 2020, 15:09:07) [GCC 10.2.0] *** Python threads support is disabled. You can enable it with --enable-threads *** Python main interpreter initialized at 0x55ecd80e8f40 your server socket listen backlog is limited to 100 connections your mercy for graceful operations on workers is 60 seconds mapped 145840 bytes (142 KB) for 1 cores *** Operational MODE: single process *** WARNING:taler.util.talerconfig:no base directory found Traceback (most recent call last): File "./talermerchantdemos/blog/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from talermerchantdemos.blog.blog import app File "./talermerchantdemos/blog/blog.py", line 40, in <module> BACKEND_BASE_URL = TC["frontends"]["backend"].value_string(required=True) File "/home/grothoff/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/taler/util/talerconfig.py", line 173, in value_string raise ConfigurationError( taler.util.talerconfig.ConfigurationError: Missing required option 'BACKEND' in section 'FRONTENDS' unable to load app 0 (mountpoint='') (callable not found or import error) *** no app loaded. going in full dynamic mode *** *** uWSGI is running in multiple interpreter mode *** spawned uWSGI master process (pid: 43434) spawned uWSGI worker 1 (pid: 43437, cores: 1) spawned uWSGI http 1 (pid: 43438) Several things wrong here: 1) there is no documentation, not even on how to build (configure, make install) 2) there is no documentation on the options to set 3) if the configuration is required (there should be sane defaults), and the configuration is wrong, then the process should print a GOOD error message 4) if the configuration is badly messed up, the process should EXIT and not continue to run as it does now | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| I now learned the solution is: $ taler-config -s frontends -o backend -V https://backend.tet.taler.net/ $ taler-config -s frontends -o backend_apikey -V "ApiKey Sandbox" Anyway, the error messages are horrible, the non-exiting is horrible, and the documentation is horrible. | |
| Torsten already added good instructions here on how to install. | |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-22 20:04 | Christian Grothoff | New Issue | |
| 2020-08-22 20:05 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0016704 | |
| 2020-08-23 10:19 | Christian Grothoff | Assigned To | => Christian Grothoff |
| 2020-08-23 10:19 | Christian Grothoff | Status | new => informing |
| 2020-08-23 10:19 | Christian Grothoff | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-08-23 10:19 | Christian Grothoff | Fixed in Version | => 0.8 |
| 2020-08-23 10:19 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0016712 | |
| 2021-08-24 14:23 | Christian Grothoff | Status | informing => closed |
| 2026-08-23 14:16 | Florian Dold | Category | Merchant frontends (Python3) => taler-merchant-demos |