I have followed the CKAN install guide from source (http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/installing/install-from-source.html) and managed to get all the way until point 6. Create database tables.
At that stage, running paster db init -c /etc/ckan/default/development.ini gives the following stack trace:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/paster", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('PasteScript==1.7.5', 'console_scripts', 'paster')()
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 104, in run
invoke(command, command_name, options, args[1:])
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 143, in invoke
exit_code = runner.run(args)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/command.py", line 238, in run
result = self.command()
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/cli.py", line 208, in command
self._load_config(cmd!='upgrade')
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/cli.py", line 164, in _load_config
self.site_user = logic.get_action('get_site_user')({'ignore_auth': True}, {})
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/logic/__init__.py", line 424, in wrapped
result = _action(context, data_dict, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/logic/action/get.py", line 2209, in get_site_user
user = model.User.get(site_id)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/model/user.py", line 64, in get
return query.first()
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 2334, in first
ret = list(self[0:1])
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 2201, in __getitem__
return list(res)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 2405, in __iter__
return self._execute_and_instances(context)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 2420, in _execute_and_instances
result = conn.execute(querycontext.statement, self._params)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 727, in execute
return meth(self, multiparams, params)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py", line 322, in _execute_on_connection
return connection._execute_clauseelement(self, multiparams, params)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 824, in _execute_clauseelement
compiled_sql, distilled_params
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 954, in _execute_context
context)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 1116, in _handle_dbapi_exception
exc_info
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 189, in raise_from_cause
reraise(type(exception), exception, tb=exc_tb)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py", line 947, in _execute_context
context)
File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 435, in do_execute
cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
sqlalchemy.exc.ProgrammingError: (ProgrammingError) column user.password does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT "user".password AS user_password, "user".id AS user_i...
^
'SELECT "user".password AS user_password, "user".id AS user_id, "user".name AS user_name, "user".openid AS user_openid, "user".fullname AS user_fullname, "user".email AS user_email, "user".apikey AS user_apikey, "user".created AS user_created, "user".reset_key AS user_reset_key, "user".about AS user_about, "user".activity_streams_email_notifications AS user_activity_streams_email_notifications, "user".sysadmin AS user_sysadmin, "user".state AS user_state \nFROM "user" \nWHERE "user".name = %(name_1)s OR "user".openid = %(openid_1)s OR "user".id = %(id_1)s ORDER BY "user".name \n LIMIT %(param_1)s' {'param_1': 1, 'id_1': 'default', 'name_1': 'default', 'openid_1': 'default'}
I did not make any modifications to the installation or the schema. The installation is under a proxy, but that did not turn out to be a problem thus far, since there were many posts giving help in that regard.
Did anybody come across this error before and managed to resolve it? I don't suppose it is a proxy-related problem... though it seems to be related to the schema.
Managed to solve this one after all, so I'll answer my own question... :)
The problem was with the setup of the database. Once I purged the database and completely reinstalled it, everything worked like a charm!