Re: Opening and saving files (crtl-o) (in 9.6 and 9.8) results in 500 error/Access denied

Hi Bastiaan,

Can you share pgAdmin logs (whatever it has)?
Also check the permission of /data/databases/pgadmin4/<USER> directory.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Opening and saving files (crtl-o) (in 9.6 and 9.8) results in 500
> error/Access denied
>
> The rest of the pgadmin4 application is working like normal..
>
> I can run any sql queries without problems, just cannot load or save any
> files!
>
>
> What did I do/remember:
>
> 1) recently updated postgresql to 17.5 on manjaro rolling release.
>
> 2) I remember that I went to the root of the storage when it started to
> act weird. Not sure this is connected though
>
> 3) When I try opening any file stored in the storage, I'm getting ...
> "Request failed with status code 500"
> ... error in the application but I cannot find *anywhere* in the logs an
> indication of what is happening (Also not in my postgresql, supervisor,
> nginx or journalctl logs).
>
> 4) I updated pgadmin4 from 9.6 to 9.8 like I always do (pip install -U
> pgadmin4) to see if this would fix it but the problem persists.
>
> 5) ...I changed CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL = 10 in the hope to see more but alas...
>
> 6) ...I enabled postgresql log to see something comes up there, but no
> postgresql seems quietly doing it's thing..
>
> 7) I checked the ...
> STORAGE_DIR = "/data/databases/pgadmin4/storage"
> ... and all is owned by the pgadmin user.
>
> 8) Via the command line I can add/delete/remove files/directories in the
> storage folder and I will see them in the storage (manager) but still
> unable to open or save any file.
>
> 9) BUT when I create a new sql script and try to save it or "save as" I am
> getting an "Access denied" message :
> "Successfully run. Total query runtime: 311 msec. 14603 rows affected.
> Access denied (/new script.sql)Access denied (/new_file.sql)Access denied
> (/two.new.sql)"
> (The message keeps appending my last attempts, btw)
>
>
> Did anybody else had this problem before?
>
> ... and know how to fix it?
>
> ... or knows a way to track down the 500 error of the app.
>
>
> or is this git issue material?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bastiaan
>
>
>
>

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