[OSM-dev] problem with mapnik

[Ruggero]

2010/3/28 Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>:
> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 22:38 +0200, Ruggero wrote:
>> 2010/3/28 Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl>:
>> > Ruggero wrote:
>> >
>> > Replying to reply which went direct to me instead of dev@
>> >
>> >>> Update your stylesheet. You haven't done that in at least 7 months[1].
>> >>> Be aware that osm.xml has changed substantially since that time, so be
>> >>> sure to read the documentation again.
>> >>>
>> >>> [1] http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/17301
>> >>
>> >> thanks, now an other problem:
>> >>
>> >> MAPNIK_MAP_FILE="osm.xml" MAPNIK_TILE_DIR="tiles/" ./generate_tiles.py
>> >> RuntimeError: PSQL error:
>> >> FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "ruggero" (encountered
>> >> during parsing of layer 'leisure')
>> >
>> > Did you run generate_xml.py or manually edit
>> > inc/datasource-settings.xml.inc ? Is your username and password in that
>> > file?
>>
>> I ran:
>>
>> ./generate_xml.py --host localhost --user ruggero --dbname gis
>> --symbols ./symbols/ --world_boundaries ./world_boundaries/ --port
>> 5432 --password xyz
>>
>> I triyed to change ruggero to 'ruggero', and so on, I changed ruggero
>> with root, postgres, but nothing change. In
>> inc/datasource-settings.xml.inc there are all my data:
>>
>> <Parameter name="type">postgis</Parameter>
>> <Parameter name="password">xyz</Parameter>
>> <Parameter name="host">localhost</Parameter>
>> <Parameter name="port">5432</Parameter>
>> <Parameter name="user">ruggero</Parameter>
>> <Parameter name="dbname">gis</Parameter>
>> <!-- this should be 'false' if you are manually providing the 'extent' -->
>> <Parameter name="estimate_extent">false</Parameter>
>> <!-- manually provided extent in epsg 900913 for whole globe -->
>> <!-- providing this speeds up Mapnik database queries -->
>> <Parameter name="extent">-20037508,-19929239,20037508,19929239</Parameter>
>>
>> thank you very much for help
>
> On most Unix installs postgres is setup in the default configuration to
> work using the 'ident same user' authentication. To use this you should
> remove the following params from the config: user, port, host, password.
> Delete all the parameter lines for these.
>
> Then mapnik will connect the same way as if you ran "psql gis" from the
> command line (without specifying a host, username or password).
>
>        Jon

thank you very much, now it works. I'll write a note on the wiki