Re: Running pgadmin4 as desktop application

On Monday, October 10, 2016, Chris Mayo <aklhfex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > Ok, this worked on CentOS 7 box, but not on Fedora 24, which has QT5 and
> Python
> > 3. Can you help me to debug this? The content of the file in Fedora 24
> is:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/pgAdmin\ Development\ Team/pgAdmin\ 4.conf
> > [General]
> > ApplicationPath=../../../..//usr/lib/python3.5/site-
> packages/pgadmin4-web/
> > PythonPath="/usr/lib64/python3.5/site-packages; /usr/lib/python3.5/site-
> packages"
> >
> >
> > I'm still getting segfault, and:
> >
> > An error occurred initialising the application server:
> >
> > Failed to locate pgAdmin4.py, terminating server thread.
>
> I suspect it is because the path is missing the xdg directory:
> /etc/xdg/pgAdmin\ Development\ Team/pgAdmin\ 4.conf
>
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsettings.html#locations-where-application-settings-
> are-stored
>
> but that did seem to apply for Qt4.8 too:
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qsettings.html#locations-
> where-application-settings-are-stored

In my tests on CentOS 7, I found it wasn't even trying to open the
/etc/xdg/... dir. You might try running under strace to see what it is
trying to read, e.g:

strace -e open pgadmin4

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