Install Globus


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Install Globus

Install Globus

Disclosure: this troubleshooting is intended for legacy applications which mandatory need the version 4.0.x of Globus Toolkit. If you don’t have an impelling reason to install that particular version, it is highly recommended that you install the latest version available of Globus Toolkit from its official web site and follow the installation guide of the official documentation.

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  • ERROR service.ReliableFileTransferImpl [main,<init>:76] Unable to setup database driver with pooling.Connection refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections
    • open /etc/postgresql/X.Y/main/postgresql.conf(where X.Y is current PostgreSQL version) and check that the line beginning with “listen_addresses” is not commented (i.e. the line should not begin with a #) and is set to listen to all addresses, in the following way: listen_addresses = '*'
    • open /etc/postgresql/X.Y/main/pg_hba.conf” and check that the last line looks like: host rftDatabase "globus" "x.x.x.x" 255.255.255.255 md5

      where “x.x.x.x” is your public IP address. If you are using Globus Toolkit on your local machine for testing purposes then using 127.0.0.1 should be fine, although in this case you won’t be able to access Globus services outside your machine;

    • check that PostgreSQL is up and running and on which port: sudo netstat -tulpn | grep postgres
    • PostgreSQL should run on port 5432. The default port number may be automatically changed (usually to 5433) as result of a version upgrade. To change it back to 5432 edit the /etc/postgresql/X.Y/main/postgresql.conf and the stop and start the service (warning: a restart won’t be enough) with: sudo service postgresql stop sudo service postgresql start
    • to check whether PostgreSQL is running properly on the 5432 port run: telnet localhost 5432
    • the message “telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused” would mean either PostgreSQL is not running, or is running on the wrong port. If you get “Connected to localhost.localdomain. Escape character is ‘^]’.” then PostgreSQL is fine.

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