Apologies for responding to my own post... but, this is definitely weird
behavior that out of the box pgadmin4 fails to start.
On 2020-04-22 12:42, Mark Murawski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> pgadmin4 does not start up on debian buster
>
> Process:
> apt-get install pgadmin4
>
> Get:2 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt buster-pgdg/main amd64
> pgadmin4 amd64 4.18-1.pgdg100+1 [272 kB]
> Get:3 http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt buster-pgdg/main amd64
> pgadmin4-common all 4.18-1.pgdg100+1 [3045 kB]
>
> $ pgadmin4
> QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-kobaz'
> Python path:
> "/home/kobaz/.virtualenvs/pgadmin4/lib/python3.4/site-packages:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages"
>
> Python Home: ""
> Webapp path: "/usr/share/pgadmin4/web/pgAdmin4.py"
> NOTE: Configuring authentication for DESKTOP mode.
>
>
> pgAdmin splash pops up, and eventually says 'Taking longer than usual'.
> 'Almost there' and then dumps this:
>
> The application server could not be contacted
>
>
>
> I've tried cleaning out my pgadmin4 python path:
> rm -rf /home/kobaz/.virtualenvs/pgadmin4
>
> I've also tried startingconfig from scratch:
> mv ~/.pgadmin ~/.pgadmin-old
>
>
> This has not resolved the issue.
>
>
> strace is showing a loop on:
>
> poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
> stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3545, ...}) = 0
>
>
> Other items of note:
>
> [pid 10122] connect(18, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(46311),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection
> refused)
>
> There's no firewall rules or other network type access restrictions on
> this box.
>
> For example as my non-root user I can:
> nc -l -s 127.0.0.1 -p 46311
>
> And then successfully connect to it with another nc
>
>
