Hi all, Yes, the use of a nupic-site.xml is working again. There were some issues with this in the past, but it looks like Matt fixed them back in December.[1][2]
Regards, Dave -- http://about.me/david_wood [1] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/commit/412da4c33ce0ef4cd39ef59cfafeaba6bd084021 [2] https://github.com/numenta/nupic/commit/a4102b48493d6d143610bf0d12357a7cdb88b291 > On Apr 22, 2015, at 09:41, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or, you can create a local configuration file called "nupic-site.xml" > or edit the existing "nupic-default.xml" with the mysql credentials > you'd like to use. That will keep you from using a root user and no > password. > > See: https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Running-Swarms#prerequisites > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:35 AM, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I’ve seen the same problem in the past. Setting a MySQL password in the >> NuPIC configuration is insufficient to allow NuPIC to connect to MySQL. >> >> I’ve worked around this by setting my root MySQL password to null before >> running NuPIC, then setting it back when I am finished with NuPIC: >> [[ >> mysqladmin --user root —password=<real password> password “" >> ]] >> ..where <real password> should be replaced with, err, your real password. >> >> I really should look into why the MySQL password in the NuPIC configuration >> isn’t being respected... >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> -- >> http://about.me/david_wood >> >> >> >>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 08:11, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Jose, >>> >>> Yes, the problem is definitely MySQL. It's either not installed, not >>> running, or there is no "root" account with no password. You'll have >>> to figure out which. How you install MySQL depends on your OS, so I >>> suggest you google your OS and "MySQL installation" and see how to do >>> it. Then you'll need to figure out how to start MySQL. From my >>> experience, this is also different depending on your OS. Google is >>> your friend. :) >>> >>> Let me know how it goes. >>> >>> --------- >>> Matt Taylor >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer >>> Numenta >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Jose Luis Contreras Santos >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am facing some trouble with swarming, and I believe it's related to some >>>> misconfiguration of mysql. For testing purposes, I tried to run the >>>> OneHotGym tutorial, but I got this error (pastebin). >>>> >>>> When testing MySQL as stated in the wiki, I get an error too: >>>> >>>>> $ sudo python $NUPIC/examples/swarm/test_db.py >>>>> Retrieved the following settings from NuPIC configuration: >>>>> host : localhost >>>>> port : 3306 >>>>> user : root >>>>> passwd : <my password> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>>> File "/home/jose/repos/nupic/examples/swarm/test_db.py", line 48, in >>>>> <module> >>>>> raise RuntimeError("Couldn't connect to the database." >>>>> RuntimeError: Couldn't connect to the database. Please ensure you have >>>>> MySQL >>>>> installed, running, and accessible using the NuPIC configuration >>>>> settings. >>>> >>>> >>>> I don't have too much experience with mysql, and I am having trouble trying >>>> to solve this error, any clue? >>>> >>>> Thank you very much, help is really appreciated! >>>> >>>> Jose Luis >>>> >>>> PS: I'm sorry that until this point my questions are only boring ones, but >>>> I >>>> am having quite a lot of problems before I can get the system to run. >>> >> >> >
