[Cdash] Postgres install getting Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object : Solved

[Chris J. Garrett]

I got it working as stated in the first email. The title was misleading sorry. I didn't find anything on the wiki or list so I felt I should post since this is a new feature. 
Thx
Chris
----- "Julien Jomier" <julien.jomier at kitware.com> wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> It seems that CDash cannot connect to the database, maybe because the
> 
> username/password are incorrect.
> 
> Try adding this to the line 254 in pdo.php
> 
> catch(PDOException $e)
>    {
>    print_r($e); // line to add
>    return false;
>    }
> 
> and see if that gives some information.
> I'm having some more issues installing the PGSQL database and I'm 
> currently tracking them down, if you have any more issues let us
> know.
> 
> Julien
> 
> Chris J. Garrett wrote:
> > Version.php says 1.2.1
> > Thx,
> > Chris
> > 
> > ----- "Julien Jomier" <julien.jomier at kitware.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Chris,
> >>
> >> What version of CDash are you using?
> >>
> >> Julien
> >>
> >> Chris J. Garrett wrote:
> >>> Just wanted to post this in the hopes it can help someone
> tripping
> >> up on the same error: 
> >>> Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in
> >> /CSI/server/cdash/cdash/pdo.php on line 207
> >>> I had to install php-dev and pdo packages. On ubuntu this looks
> >> like: 
> >>> sudo apt-get install php-pear
> >>> sudo pecl install pdo
> >>> sudo apt-get install php5-dev
> >>> sudo pecl install pdo
> >>> sudo pecl install pdo_pgsql
> >>>
> >>> I also had to change the database type in config.php to: 
> >>>
> >>> $CDASH_DB_TYPE = 'pgsql';
> >>>
> >>> HTH
> >>> Chris
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