[Qgis-user] Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not make

Sun May 19 23:36:27 PDT 2019

I am having the same qgis.db error using a Windows Farm environment with profiles stored on a network drive.  It appears to be a problem with the delay in synchronizing the directory with the server 

After getting this error and closing QGIS 3, we find ourselves in the following situation

1. We open msys.
2. We cd to the parent of the profiles directory.
3. We ls. profiles does not exist.
4. We mkdir foo.  That is successful.  So we have permissions.
5. We cannot mkdir profiles.  That is an error from the file system, because it thinks profiles exists already.
6. We cannot remove profiles, because the system thinks it is in use by another program.

Restarting QGIS doesn't work.  The only solution we have found is to completely log the user out of the system, log back in, copy a dummy profile to the profile location, and start QGIS 3.

This is happening to 1 out of 4 new users on our system, as we move them from QGIS 2 to QGIS 3.  (QGIS 2 never had this problem.)  

Since we have 50 users, we are going to each user and doing their first startup and settings personally, using the dummy profile.  This isn't so bad, since it helps make sure the user's environment is just as they want it, but I would be happier if the profile problem wasn't there.

Heather

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Today's Topics:

   1. Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not make
      qgis.db private copy (Amedeo Fadini)
   2. Re: Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not make
      qgis.db private copy (Jürgen E. Fischer)
   3. Layer panel docking problem (Susan Iremonger)
   4. Re: Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not make
      qgis.db private copy (Amedeo Fadini)
   5. Re: Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not make
      qgis.db private copy (Jürgen E. Fischer)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 11:06:56 +0200
From: Amedeo Fadini <amefad at gmail.com>
To: Qgis Users List - International <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Qgis-user] Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can Not
	make qgis.db private copy
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Hi everybody,
I have a ubuntu Bionic LTS server with QGIS 3.4 LTR installed
Since the Qgis project I've published connects to local postggis data I
would like to launch Qgis with X forwarding to modify directly the
published project...

The client is debian 9.8 when I try to launch qgis it shows me the import
esttings window, then the splash screen and after that an alert window with
message "ERROR Can Not make qgis.db private copy" the stdout also log the
following

ERROR: auth db directory path could not be created
ERROR: opening of authentication db FAILED

the auth db path is setted in apache. conf for qgis server: tried to set
the same path as environment variable but no change.

seems that after installation I don't have .qgis3 folder

Any suggestion?

Amedeo
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 12:58:56 +0200
From: Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can
	Not make qgis.db private copy
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Hi Amedeo,

On Sun, 19. May 2019 at 11:06:56 +0200, Amedeo Fadini wrote:
> seems that after installation I don't have .qgis3 folder

There's no .qgis3 anymore - the user profiles are in
~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles

Jürgen

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 15:31:35 +0100
From: Susan Iremonger <s.iremonger at gmail.com>
To: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [Qgis-user] Layer panel docking problem
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Hi All,
Please help me with this: I am using QGIS 3.4. Somehow I un-docked my Layer
Panel and now it just floats over the display, which now takes up all the
space on my screen. So the Layer Panel obscures the left side of the
display of the map/data. I have tried moving the panel all the way to the
left to see if it will dock again for me, without joy.  I have also tried
the same thing moving it to the right. I have even uninstalled and
installed the program again, and it has the same problem.
Before this happened I think I clicked a little icon next to the "x" at the
right hand upper corner of the Layer Panel . This has disappeared now but
it might have had somehting to do with the undocking of the panel. Any help
much appreciated.
Susan.

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Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 16:58:49 +0200
From: Amedeo Fadini <amefad at gmail.com>
To: Qgis Users List - International <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can
	Not make qgis.db private copy
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Hi Jurgen,
Thank you so much, solved.

Il giorno dom 19 mag 2019 alle ore 13:00 Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>
ha scritto:

> Hi Amedeo,
>
> There's no .qgis3 anymore - the user profiles are in
> ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles
>

Yes, I've found this information from Salvatore Fiandaca in the
meanwhile....

I have found only the user profile under /root and not under
/home/<myuser>...
It works if I connect with ssh -X root@<myserver>

Copying profile in my home  let me open as an unprivileged user, even if
gives me an alert about updating private db (I'll check permission)

Should I copy or link the profile for other users?

Amedeo
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 17:27:04 +0200
From: Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Unable to launch QGIS with X Forwarding - Can
	Not make qgis.db private copy
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Hi Amedeo,

On Sun, 19. May 2019 at 16:58:49 +0200, Amedeo Fadini wrote:
> I have found only the user profile under /root and not under
> /home/<myuser>...
> It works if I connect with ssh -X root@<myserver>

The profile should be created automatically.  Check whether one of the parent
directories of ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles is not writable by your user
- that might be a result of copying a profile earlier or running something
as root without resetting HOME.

Jürgen

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