App stopped seeing database

Targets Raspberry Pi
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For several weeks, I have been working on a web app to run on a Raspberry Pi. I put both the compiled program and its SQLite database in the /home/pi/EZwithPi folder and everything worked fine until I uploaded a new version of the program to the rPi this morning. Since then I get a “Database not found” message when the session tries to connect to the database. If I run the program in the remote debugger it connects properly. I have been using this code for the connection:

if TargetARM #if DebugBuild f = GetFolderItem("../") #Else f = GetFolderItem("") #Endif #Endif if f.exists Then db.DatabaseFile = f.Child("EZPiData.sqlite") if not db.Connect then MsgBox "Could not connect to database" else MsgBox "Database not found" end if
Thinking the problem was with the GetFolderItem(""), I changed the code to

f = SpecialFolder.UserHome.Child("EZwithPi")

but that didn’t work as it returned /EZwithP/i instead of /home/pi/EZwithPi/ (I filed a bug report about that.) Next I hard coded it to

f = GetFolderItem("/home/pi/EZwithPi")
with exactly the same result as as GetFolderItem("").

Neither starting the app with /etc/rc.local on boot up or starting it in Terminal works.

Why does it work in the remote debugger (which is in a child of the app’s folder) but not when compiled? Why has this worked for weeks without problem until today? Any update to the Pi operating system was automatic with no input from me and the code above goes back to the start of developing this app. Is there a work around other than moving the database to a different folder? Being a Linux newbie, there are probably better folders that the user home one.

Any help with this will be most appreciated.

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Hi @Dean Davidge

Do you have some way to log where f is pointing to before the db.connect call? Maybe that would give you a hint about the problem.

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The debugger is probably running as user “pi” but your application runs as “root” or you used sudo to execute.

Be consistent use “pi” for both or “root” for both.

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If a DebugBuild connects ok what happens if you remove the #If ?

#if DebugBuild f = GetFolderItem("../")

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After spending 4 hours trying to trouble shoot this problem this morning, I recompiled a version from three weeks ago and it runs fine with code unchanged in the areas I am having problems. By hard coding the path to the database rather than using GetFolderItem(""), I was able to verify the database was connecting and I could write to it, However the session never opened. I also found the program would write to the system log if I started it in the terminal with sudo, but if I started it with /etc/rc.local, nothing was written to the system log.

The compiled version seems to be so buggy, I think it is time for us to decide whether to continue with the Raspberry Pi or switch to one of the small Windows boxes.

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[quote] Derk Jochems yesterday Pre-Release Testers, Xojo Pro

The debugger is probably running as user “pi” but your application runs as “root” or you used sudo to execute.

Be consistent use “pi” for both or “root” for both.[/quote]

Derk was right. All the problems went away after I assigned root execute permission to the folder with

sudo chmod +x /home/pi/EZwithPi