Troubleshooting

Database issues

If you get an error like so:

django.db.utils.OperationalError: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

This means the isolated database process Reactivated creates is stuck.

In the future, Reactivated will handle this much more gracefully.

Two options, the latter harsher.

Manual cleanup

1. Use ps aux and find the zombie postgres process that is running. You should recognize it because the project path will be in the arguments.
2. Kill this process.
3. Exit your shell, start new shell and run nix-shell as always. This will start a new DB process.

Full reset

1. Kill the postgres process as in option 1.
2. Exit all shells for this project.
3. Remove and delete BASE_DIR/.venv.
4. Start nix-shell again.

Warning: This option will delete your database! Get in the habit of having an easy to setup local development database. Use fixtures or factory boy.