Hi Mario,

do you use our packaged (https://www.openproject.org/open-source/packaged-installation/) or manual installation (https://www.openproject.org/open-source/manual-installation/)?

please paste your config/database.yml (skip any sensitive data).

I tried the packaged installation but it failed so I used the manual installation. openproject is installed in the home directory of the openproject user.

    #MySQL (default setup).
    production:
      adapter: mysql2
      database: openproject
      host: localhost
      username: openproject
      password: foo
      encoding: utf8

    development:
      adapter: mysql2
      database: openproject_dev
      host: localhost
      username: openproject_dev
      password: foo
      encoding: utf8

        #Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
        #re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
        #Do not set this db to the same as development or production.
    test:
      adapter: mysql2
      database: openproject_test
      host: localhost
      username: root
      password:
      encoding: utf8

    #test_pgsql:
      #adapter: postgresql
      #encoding: unicode
      #database: openproject_test
      #pool: 5
      #username: openproject
      #password:

    #test_sqlite3:
      #adapter: sqlite3
      #database: db/test.sqlite3

looks like rails 3.2.21 wants to create the test database whenever you create the development database:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v3.2.21/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake#L637

so the rake task wants to connect to your database server as root as specified in the test: block of your database.yml

your options:

• create a valid configuration for the test database (use a user that’s allowed to connect)
• drop the database key form the test database’s configuration (code looks like this should work but i didn’t test)
• drop the test block entirely

give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Thanks for helping.
I added a comment on each line of the test config section and created the database and filled it. Everything worked fine.
Though I am still receiving a email per minute from the cron daemon containing this:

require 'rails/all'... 1.170s
Bundler.require... 4.170s
Application.initialize!... [deprecated] I18n.enforce_available_locales will default to true in the future. If you really want to skip validation of your locale you can set I18n.enforce_available_locales = false to avoid this message.
5.580s
[Worker(host:foo_hostname_bar pid:16496)] Starting job worker [Worker(host:foo_hostname_bar pid:16496)] No more jobs available. Exiting

Okay, I eliminated this message by now, but I am still receiving an email every minute. Is that supposed to work like this?

please paste the contents of your crontab

Thats the crontab. I think its the default config.

*/1 * * * * cd /home/openproject/openproject; /home/openproject/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.4/wrappers/rake jobs:workoff

No idea?

hmm, difficult to say. looks to me like there’s a job stuck in the queue that happens to send that email.

could you please provide the last hundred or so lines of the logfiles:

• production log (or development if you run it in dev). should be at RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log or under /var/log/openproject
• the worker log if it’s there

if you’re familiar with sql or the rails console, we could confirm that there’s a job present and which one it is
SQL: select * from delayed_jobs;
Rails Console: Delayed::Job.all

before that you could remove the entry from the crontab to confirm that it’s triggered by the cronjob/delayed_job stuff.