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[nsauter]

Hi!

im tring to install my own mastodon Server rn, but i cant get it to work. I followed exactly every step like it is described in the install from source docs.

mastodon:setup breaks because database does not have the right tables and so on, but the setup should do that on its own. Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

bin/rails:4:in `<main>'
Tasks: TOP => db:setup => db:schema:load_if_ruby => db:create
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
That failed! Perhaps your configuration is not right

The final step is compiling CSS/JS assets.
This may take a while and consume a lot of RAM.
Compile the assets now? Yes
Running `RAILS_ENV=production rails assets:precompile` ...


yarn install v1.22.5
[1/6] Validating package.json...
[2/6] Resolving packages...
[3/6] Fetching packages...
info [email protected]: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
info [email protected]: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[4/6] Linking dependencies...
warning " > [email protected]" has incorrect peer dependency "react-redux@^3.0.0 || ^4.0.0 || ^5.0.0".
[5/6] Building fresh packages...
[6/6] Cleaning modules...
Done in 19.02s.
I, [2020-11-19T20:16:23.481535 #29557]  INFO -- : Writing /home/mastodon/live/public/assets/doorkeeper/admin/application-a644908e7bab54fb749be0f59fb64a7480bbf9c4c2b79d4a65791cb7ab4d8730.css
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Compiling...
Compiled all packs in /home/mastodon/live/public/packs
Done!

All done! You can now power on the Mastodon server 🐘

Do you want to create an admin user straight away? Yes
rake aborted!
ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError: FATAL:  database "mastodon_production" does not exist
/home/mastodon/live/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/activerecord-5.2.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:696:in `rescue in connect'

[Gargron]

Tasks: TOP => db:setup => db:schema:load_if_ruby => db:create (See full trace by running task with --trace) That failed! Perhaps your configuration is not right

It seems like the part of the wizard that creates the database failed. I don't see any more information here, sadly. What values have you entered for the PostgreSQL connection?

[nsauter]

Tasks: TOP => db:setup => db:schema:load_if_ruby => db:create (See full trace by running task with --trace) That failed! Perhaps your configuration is not right

It seems like the part of the wizard that creates the database failed. I don't see any more information here, sadly. What values have you entered for the PostgreSQL connection?

I did not setup anything special. I was testing so i just pressed enter and did not setup a password. The other options were localhost and the Port, which did match the suggestions.

[Gargron]

localhost is probably the problem because while you can connect through localhost you can't use ident authentication (passwordless, based on unix user) through it. You'd need to use /var/run/postgresql as the host (unix socket). I'm not sure if this is failure of the documentation or of the mastodon:setup script...

Just edit .env.production and the DB_HOST value. You can then run RAILS_ENV=production bin/rails db:setup. It won't auto-create an admin user without the interactive wizard (so you may want to re-run that if you don't mind re-entering all values) but it's not too difficult to just sign-up from the website once it's up and then turn your new account into admin using RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl accounts modify YOUR_USERNAME --role=admin

[nsauter]

Well, sorry. I've meant /var/run/postgresql, i did not enter localhost. As i Said, i basically just pressed return.