Re: [Exist-open] Help with a new installation

[Hayim L. <hl...@um...>]

Thanks to all of you who answered (mostly off list)

One issue was not dumping the data on an old version of exist.
Now I seem to have some sort of port conflict that I can't solve...
But progress.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 5:55 PM Hayim Lapin <hl...@um...> wrote:

> Thanks for this!
> There should be no disk space issues and (possibly because I am an
> inexperience system administrator) the root user is running the
> installation.
> Is it specifically the data directory that is at issue in "connecting with
> database"? That seems to be a place to start!
>
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> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 4:52 PM <ml-...@fl...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hayim,
>>
>> just some general ideas - which system user is running the installation
>> process? Has that user write permissions for the data folder? Can you
>> rule out disk space issues?
>>
>> Sadly, i don't have specific experience with AWS instances...
>>
>> HTH
>> Florian
>>
>>
>> Am 15.07.2022 um 20:05 schrieb Hayim Lapin:
>> > Dear all,
>> > I wonder if members of the list could help with installation problems.
>> I
>> > am installing the exist to an aws instance running redhat (why? I don't
>> > actually know)
>> > When I run the set up jar the process runs through installation and
>> then
>> > at startup gives the error report below.
>> > Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
>> >
>> > Many thanks
>> > HL
>> >
>> > [ Starting processing ]
>> > Starting process Setting data dir... (1/2)
>> > Starting process Setting admin password... (2/2)
>> > eXist version 6.0.1 (51506fc97a9e5bb55fdea71fc76def2c9d402886),
>> > Copyright (C) 2001-2022 The eXist-db Project
>> > eXist-db comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>> > under certain conditions; for details read the license file.
>> >
>> > Connecting to database...
>> > java.io.IOException: Database is read-only
>> ...
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