Re: pgAdmin4 won't start after OS upgrade

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:11 PM Ray O'Donnell <ray(at)rodonnell(dot)ie> wrote:

> On 02/09/2020 08:50, Dave Page wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 5:28 PM Ray O'Donnell <ray(at)rodonnell(dot)ie
> > <mailto:ray(at)rodonnell(dot)ie>> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > One thing caught my eye: the Python path in the above output includes
> > both Python 3.5 and 3.7 stuff... Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Hmm, yeah - looks like you may have a Python installation in
> > /home/rod/.local/lib/python3.5 that got into the path?
> >
> > Try temporarily moving it out of the way and see if that helps. Also,
> > check in ~/.config/pgadmin/pgadmin4.conf to see if there's a PythonPath
> > key that's confusing things.
>
> That sorted it! I renamed /home/rod/.local/lib/python3.5, and pgAdmin
> was then able to start.
>

\o/

>
> I looked into ~/.config/pgadmin/pgadmin4.conf as you suggested, and
> there is indeed a PythonPath line:
>
>
> PythonPath="/home/rod/.local/lib/python3.5;/home/rod/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages"
>
> Can I safely delete this line?
>

Yes.

>
> I think the Python 3.5 installation is cruft from historical
> installations of pgAdmin4, before the deb packages became available...
> I'll leave it there for the moment, and if nothing else breaks I'll
> eventually delete it.
>
> Thanks a million for your help!
>

You're welcome.

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