[ckan-dev] CKAN "No section: 'formatters'" error

[Stefan Oderbolz]

Can you get it to work if you make *no* changes at all? Or what exactly are
your "minimum" changes?
Somehow there is a problem with the file and it's hard to tell without
access to the whole file.

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Derek Hohls <dhohls at csir.co.za> wrote:

> Thanks Stefan
>
> I am using the default production.ini file supplied with the software and
> attempting to make the "minimum"  changes to it, in order for CKAN to work.
>
> The sections you asked about are:
>
> [app:main]
> use = egg:ckan
> full_stack = true
> cache_dir = /tmp/%(ckan.site_id)s/
> beaker.session.key = ckan
>
> [formatters]
> keys = generic
>
> I cannot see any reference to "formatters" in the
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/configuration.html#ckan-configuration-file
> document?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
>
> >>> Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> 02/06/16 9:38 PM >>>
> Check the sections in your config file (/etc/ckan/default/production.ini).
> Is there a [app:main] section? Is there a [formatters] section?
> Did you generate the config file? If so how? Or what is your template?
>
> You can read more about the config file and its structure here:
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/configuration.html#ckan-configuration-file
>
> If nothing helps, you can try to re-generate the configuration using the
> following paster command:
>
> paster make-config ckan /etc/ckan/default/new-production.ini
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Derek Hohls <dhohls at csir.co.za> wrote:
>
>> I have CKAN installed in a container.
>>
>> When trying to reach the CKAN webpage, I am getting this error in the
>> ckan_default.error.log::
>>
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/etc/ckan/default/apache.wsgi", line 9, in <module>
>>      fileConfig(config_filepath)
>>    File
>> "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/util/logging_config.py",
>> line 93, in fileConfig
>>      formatters = _create_formatters(cp)
>>    File
>> "/usr/lib/ckan/default/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paste/script/util/logging_config.py",
>> line 125, in _create_formatters
>>      flist = cp.get("formatters", "keys")
>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 330, in get
>>      raise NoSectionError(section)
>>  NoSectionError: No section: 'formatters'
>>
>>
>> The ckan.docs website says this is a common error::
>>
>>     *NoSectionError: No section: 'formatters'*
>>
>>     This suggests that the config file specified with the paster --config
>>     parameter (e.g. myconfig.ini) is incorrectly formatted. This may be
>> true,
>>     but this error is also printed if you specify an incorrect filename
>> for
>>     the config file!
>>
>> I checked in the section of code where the error is raised.  It seems as
>> if the file it is looking for is stored in the 'fname' variable.  Echoing
>> the contents of this variable shows its value to be
>> `/etc/ckan/default/production.ini` (which is what I would expect).  This
>> implies the file itself is incorrectly formatted.  How do I go about
>> finding what is incorrect about the formatting & then fixing it?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Derek
>>
>>
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